•received the first u. s. patent for the telephone in 1876 • work with the deaf inspired interest in speech • professor at boston university who is being described above?

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.