Alexander Graham: The Invention Of The Telephone

Generally credit of an invention goes to the person with the most practical or best working invention instead of the person who first invented it.

There have been numerous arguments about who invented the Telephone. This subject has been in the News Papers, and held in Court. Alexander Graham was thought to be the inventor of the Telephone but, he wasn’t the first person to come up with the idea it was Antonio Meucci.

Antonio Mecci was an Italian inventor. He was born April 13, 1808 in San Frediano. Antonio had nine brothers and sisters he was the oldest. In 1821, when he was 15 he studied Design and Mechanical

Engineering at Florence Academy of Fine Arts. He was able to attend school for two year until his parents could not afford to pay for school, but that did not stop him started attending part time and got a job. He worked as a gate keeper and customs official. In 1833 he was arrested for three months because he was thought to part of the conspiracy of the Italian Unification Movement. In 1837 while working at the Theatre Antonio married Esterre Mochi, she worked at the theatre with him. In 1845

Antonio and his wife moved to Cuba. He gets a job working at Gran Teatro della Pergola. He worked as a

Designer and a Stage Technician, while working there he created a water purification system and an acoustic telephone to communicate with the other staff. While working at Teatro della Pergola, Antonio discovered that he was entranced in all kinds of scientific research that he could think of, he would spend most of his time at Havana doing research and inventing things. In 1848 Antonio was asked to take a job at Franz Anton Mesmer’s he worked on Rheuma...

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...ng Telegraph machine how it was made and how it worked. He did not win his case. In 1889 Antonio died and was not given his credit for inventing the Telephone. Because Antonio did not have the money to renew the caveat, he lost all of his rights for the Talking Telegraph. On June 11, 2002 the United States House of

Representatives passed the Resolution it honored his work.

I believe that, this is just another example of how people take what they want from the small person and don’t care who they hurt or how they effect that person’s life. This was my first time hearing about Antonio Meucci, I was told that Alexander Grant Bell was the person that invented the phone, only to find out that it was someone else. This new information makes me think about what other

History information is a fraud or other things that we are being lied to about.