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Friedrichsdorf
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, on the southern slope of the Taunus range, 3 m. N.E. from Homburg. Pop. 1300. It has a French Reformed church, a modern school, dyeworks, weaving mills, tanneries and tobacco manufactures. Friedrichsdorf was founded in 1687 by Huguenot refugees and the inhabitants still speak French. There is a monument to Philipp Reis (1834-1874), who in 1860 first constructed the telephone while a science master at the school.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Friedrichsdorf'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/friedrichsdorf.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Friedrichsdorf'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/friedrichsdorf.html. 1910.
