What is Antonio Meucci?
[[Image:Antonio Meucci.jpg|thumb|Antonio Meucci]] '''Antonio Meucci''' ([[Florence]], April 13, 1808 – October 18, 1889) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[inventor]]. He invented the first type of [[telephone]], also known as the first 'talking [[Telegraphy|telegraph]]' 1857. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Who is credited with inventing the telephone?|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/who-is-credited-with-inventing-the-telephone/|access-date=2020-08-24|website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> 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. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2002-06-17|title=Bell did not invent telephone, US rules|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews|access-date=2020-08-24|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Meuccu, Antonio}} [[Category:Italian inventors]] [[Category:Italian engineers]] [[Category:1808 births]] [[Category:1889 deaths]] [[Category:Telephone]]