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<h2>Essays</h2> <p>This section is for all the stuff that doesn't fit into any of the other categories.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="Essays/EarlyTransmitters.htm">1. Early Transmitters</a></p> <p>A brief look at some of the early transmitters designed to get around Bell's patents. A gas-powered transmitter? Some of the oddities as well as those that worked.</p> <p><a href="Essays/Berliner/Berliner.htm">2. Emile Berliner</a></p> <p>The man who made Bell's telephones work. He is better known for his work on the Gramophone.</p> <p><a href="Essays/Reis.htm">3. Johann Phillip Reis</a> </p> <p>He almost certainly invented the first working telephone, but he overlooked one critical fact. He didn't realise that he had invented it.</p> <p><a href="Essays/Hughes/Hughes.htm">4. David Hughes</a></p> <p>A brilliant man who laid the groundwork for many carbon transmitters.</p> <p><a href="Essays/British%20Ericsson.htm">5. The "British Ericsson"</a></p> <p>A popular and reliable telephone widely used in Australia.</p> <p><a href="Essays/Meucci/Meucci.htm">6. Antonio Meucci</a></p> <p>Did he really invent the telephone?</p> <p><a href="Essays/Ader/Ader.htm">7. Clement Ader</a></p> <p>He is mainly known for his work on powered flight, but he also designed telephones and invented the forerunner of the radio broadcasting station.</p> <p><a href="Essays/Electrophone.htm">8. Electrophone</a></p> <p>An idea before its time?</p> <p><a href="Essays/Pantelephone.htm">9. The Pantelephone</a></p> <p>Obscure and
