When was the Scottish-born scientist died after whose invention "Kōbushō" had started an effort to make telephone receivers?
Oki Kibatarō Oki Kibatarō (沖 牙太郎 , 1848–1906) was an engineer formerly employed at a Japanese Ministry of Industry ("Kōbushō") factory. In 1877, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's invention, "Kōbushō" had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype.
Makoto Nishimura Makoto Nishimura (西村 真琴 , Nishimura Makoto , 1883 – 1956) was a Japanese biologist. He is most renowned as the inventor of Gakutensoku, Japan's first functional robot. He was the father of actor Ko Nishimura.