Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat (nonfiction)

Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat ("The horse does not eat cucumber salad") is a phrase spoken by telephone pioneer Johann Philipp Reis as a demonstration of the Reis telephone, an early telephone technology.

Reis chose the Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat to prove that speech can be successfully recognized on the distant end of telephone transmission, because the phrase is difficult to understand acoustically in the German language.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against physical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)
• Telephone (nonfiction)

External links:

• Reis telephone @ Wikipedia
• Johann Philipp Reis