Philipp Reis Monument

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Philipp Reis Monument

The Philipp Reis Monument is a monument created in 1919 in the Eschenheim facility in Frankfurt am Main . It honors the inventor of the telephone, Philipp Reis .

description

Detail view of the two men talking on the phone

The monument is made of solid artificial stone . In the middle there is a bust of Philipp Reis on a column. To the left and right of it are two naked youths who cannot see each other, but are talking to Reis with a telephone. On both sides of the monument there is the following inscription:

Left: Right:

PHILIPP REIS
INVENTOR OF THE
TELEPHONE
BORN AT
GELNHAUSEN 1834
DIED AT
FRIEDRICHSDORF 1874

TO REMEMBER
THE FIRST
PRESENTATION OF
HIS INVENTION
IN THE FRANKFURTER
PHYSICAL ASSOCIATION,
20 OCTOBER 1961

history

As early as 1898 the Physikalische Verein called for a monument to be erected in honor of Philipp Reis. In the club building at Eschenheimer Tor , Reis first presented his telephone to the public on October 26, 1861 . The association formed a committee to raise the necessary £ 1,500 . The monument was designed by Friedrich Christoph Hausmann in 1919. The foundation stone was laid on October 26, 1919. There was a scandal because of the two naked young men pictured.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arning: Frankfurt for beginners: self-propagating tones. In: fr-online.de . February 9, 2009, accessed September 1, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c Nicola Netzer: Philipp-Reis-Monument. In: Art in Public Space Frankfurt . 2015, accessed September 1, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Nature 57, February 24, 1898, p. 396. doi : 10.1038 / 057395c0

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 4.7 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 49 ″  E