Cornelius Herz
Obituary 1898 [1]
"...Dr. Heinrich Hertz, as it has been more than once, because both have been prominently before the world as electricians. Dr. Herz was born at Besancon in 1845, and graduated in medicine in Germany. After the Franco-Gorman war he went to the United States, became naturalised, and married an American girl. His position in the world of science was due to the very prominent part which he took in working the Marcel Despretz patents for transmitting power by electricity, and after many difficulties he succeeded in getting the powerful aid of the Rothschilds, and finally made a good deal of money. He laboured with unsurpassed energy to improve and develope the telephone, and it has been claimed for him that he was the first to make long-distance transmission a commercial possibility. In 1880 he received the..."More.
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- ↑ The Engineer 1898/07/08, p040.