Antonio Meucci: Italian inventor and telephone pioneer
Antonio Meucci (Florence, April 13, 1808 – October 18, 1889) was an Italian inventor.
He invented the first type of telephone, also known as the first 'talking telegraph' 1857. In 2002, the United States House of Representatives ruled that he invented the first working telephone, although Alexander Graham Bell was first to patent it.
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