Antonio Meucci
Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808-1889) · United States · Scientists · Died at 81
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Something wrong?The man who wired his bedroom to his basement lab in 1850s Staten Island and filed a patent caveat in 1871 - five years before Alexander Graham Bell's famous patent. A century-long argument about who actually invented the telephone, still unresolved.
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Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was born in Italy on 13 April 1808 and became an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi during the tumultuous years of Italian unification. He later emigrated to Staten Island, New York, where he set up a voice-communication link connecting the second-floor bedroom of his home to his laboratory below. In 1871 he submitted a patent caveat to the U.S. Patent Office for his telephonic device, though it made no mention of electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound. Five years later, in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell secured the patent for electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current - the one history remembered. The U.S. House of Representatives acknowledged Meucci's work in a 2002 resolution, but the Senate never joined, and the question of credit remains contested. He died on 18 October 1889.
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