The real telephone inventor - Antonio Meucci

When I first read the news from the internet, I was almost chocked to death to realize that there is an argument on the patent of telephone invention. However, the news is yet to confirm by the scientist council, so I just take it as an interruption in copyright and property right. Then, I decided to let people know the argumentation and here is the ambiguous story...


Source: Bell cut off as phone inventor

A person with the name, Antonio Meucci, studied design and mechanical engineering at Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He then moved to Cuba to work, found that sounds could travel through copper wire. It was such a success when he ringed his paralyzed wife's room with his neighboring workshop. Then, he had to produce a prototype telephone as his neighbor sold it to a secondhand shop. However, he couldn't afford to pay $250 to patent his invention. With his imminent patent, as he couldn't renew it, forced to send the model to the Western Union telegraph company. Bell, his laboratory mate, made a profitable deal with Western Union, and confirmed the patent to be his invention.


Source: Chronology of Meucci's Invention

1834 - Meucci constructed a kind of acoustic telephone as a way to communicate between the stage and control room at the theatre "Teatro della Pergola" in Florence.

1848 - Meucci developed a popular method of using electric shocks to treat rheumatism.

1849 - Meucci demonstrated some sort of instrument in Havana, Cuba, but the evidence is unclear if this was an electric telephone or a variant on the string telephone using wires.

1856 - Meucci constructed the first electromagnetic telephone.

1860 - An early version of the telephone was invented. A description of it was published in New York's Italian language newspaper. Meucci invented a paired electro-magnetic transmitter and receiver, where the motion of a diaphragm modulated a signal in a coil by moving an electromagnet.

1864 - Meucci's realized his "best device", using an iron diaphragm with optimized thickness and tightly clamped along its rim.

Aug 1870 - Meucci obtained transmission of articulate human voice at a mile distance by using as a conductor a copper plait insulated by cotton. He called his device "teletrofono".

Sept 1870 - According to an Affidavit of laawyer Michael Lemmi drawings and notes by Antonio Meucci show that Meucci understood inductive loading on long distance telephone lines 30 years before any other scientists.

March 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell, who conducted experiments in the same laboratory where Meucci's materials had been stored, was granted a patent and was thereafter credited with inventing the telephone.

11 June 2002 - Meucci was recognized as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States House of Representatives in House Resolution 269

Source: Meuci: the real inventor of the telephone


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Even though, I've gone through the articles and read the details, I become more confused when more and more inventors claimed their right over the invention of the telephone. There are some books to be read such as "The Telephone and Its Several Inventors (By Lewis Coe)." I'm still investigating and I hope I will get to the end of investigation...