Antonio Meucci
Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)
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Italian inventor credited by some as the first to develop a working telephone, decades before Bell made it famous. Also ran with Garibaldi during Italy's unification push.
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Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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