context: Athanasius Kircher is a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 writings, mostly in the fields of orientalism, geology and medicine. He also created the first megaphone. Kircher was a well-known hieroglyphic translator in his day although later his translations and interpretations were stated as absurd and false. However, he really did research on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and found a connection between Egyptian and Coptic languages ​​so that he was eventually called the founder of Egiptology. He was also so interested in Sinology that he wrote an encyclopedia about China. His work in the field of geology discusses volcanoes and fossils. He was also one of the first people to investigate microbes using a microscope. He was also one of the people who argued that an outbreak was caused by microorganisms and suggested effective supervision to prevent the spread of a disease. Kircher also showed an interest in engineering and the discoveries of mechanical devices. One of his discoveries was a magnetic clock, various automatons, and the first megaphone.
question: Who Invented the Megafon Device?
answers.text: Athanasius Kircher