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["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Indeed. Thanks for that. :-)

Via WIkipedia:

[snip]

Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (April 13, 1808–October 18, 1896) was an Italian inventor. In Italy, he is generally 
recognized as the inventor of the telephone. Until recently, the rest of the world widely attributed this to Alexander 
Graham Bell, but the matter was thrown into controversy when, in June 2002, the United States House of Representatives 
passed a symbolic bill officially recognizing Meucci for his contributions to the invention of the telephone.

[snip]

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci

Thanks!

- ferg


-- Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:

Fergie wrote:

> At Boston University he continued his research in the same field,
> and endeavored to produce a telephone which would not only send
> musical notes, but articulate speech. 
>
> With financing from his American father-in-law, on March 7, 1876,
> the U.S. Patent Office granted him Patent Number 174,465 covering
> "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other
> sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations,
> similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said
> vocal or other sound", the telephone. 

This "history" is rather contested.

If you're going to celeebrate the invention of the telephone, you 
should probably search out the story of Antonio Meucci, a poor 
Florentine immigrant to your country who (along with several others) 
clearly "invented" functional telephones somewhat before Bell.  Meucci 
could not afford the $250 patent fee, and could not even afford to 
maintain the $1/year fee for a renewable notice of an impending patent, 
although he did file one of these for one year in 1871.  In the hope of 
interesting the telegraph company in the notion and to help him get his 
invention patented, he even sent prototypes to Western Union, where 
Bell almost certainly saw them and could have worked with them.

[snip]


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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