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Antonio Meucci
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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science · Italian inventor (1808–1889) · inventor · physicist · also Antonio Meucci, Antonio 'Santi Giuseppe' Meucci, Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci, Meucci
Born 13 April 1808 · Died 18 October 1889 · Q273314
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 3 entries
La Nazione: Antonio Meucci. Sul palco la vita e le invenzioni
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Corriere della Sera: Il padre del telefono è Antonio Meucci. Perché ChatGPT non lo sa? La storia nel podcast «Geni Invisibili»
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La Nazione: Cantiere Obraz e Catalyst ’L’ho inventato io. Antonio Meucci’
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2022· 1 entry
Corriere della Sera: Alexander Bell moriva 100 anni fa: ha inventato lui il telefono? La disputa lunga 70 anni con Antonio Meucci
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2021· 1 entry
Repubblica: Antonio Meucci, cittadino toscano, contro il monopolio Bell
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2019· 1 entry
Leggo: Antonio Meucci moriva 130 anni fa: dalla cornetta al cellulare, la rivoluzione in uno squillo
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2010· 1 entry
Dollars), and settled in the Clifton area of Staten Island, New York, New York
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2008· 1 entry
Using the title "Inventore del telefono" (Inventor of the telephone)
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2003· 1 entry
That featured a portrait of Meucci
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2002· 2 entries
Also acknowledged Meucci's work in the invention of the telephone, although the U
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Some news articles reported that "the resolution said his 'telettrofono', demonstrated in New York in 1860, made him the inventor of the telephone in the place of Bell, who took out a patent 16 years later
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1889· 1 entry
Died 1889-10-18.
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1886· 1 entry
In the first of three cases in which he was involved, Meucci took the stand as a witness in the hopes of establishing his invention's priority
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1885· 1 entry
Became general manager of the Globe Telephone Company, which had "started an action attempting to involve the government in hindering U
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1876· 2 entries
Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current
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And subsequent years, the Bell Telephone Company filed suit in court against the Globe Telephone Company (amongst many others) for patent infringement
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1872· 2 entries
Meucci and his friend Angelo Bertolino went to Edward B
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1873, 1875, and 1876, at the cost of $35 each, as well as one additional $10 patent caveat, all totaling $150, for inventions unrelated to the telephone
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1871· 1 entry
But there was no mention of electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound in his caveat
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1864· 1 entry
Meucci claimed to have made what he felt was his best device, using an iron diaphragm with optimized thickness and tightly clamped along its rim
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1860· 2 entries
Asked his friend Enrico Bandelari to look for Italian capitalists willing to finance his project
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But did not know what it was until he saw Bell's patent; and a fourth told a vivid story of having heard a bullfrog croak via a telegraph wire which was strung into a certain cellar in Racine, in 1851
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1857· 1 entry
Describe the basic principle of electromagnetic voice transmission or in other words, the telephone:
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1856· 1 entry
Meucci reportedly constructed the first electromagnetic telephone, made of an electromagnet with a nucleus in the shape of a horseshoe bat, a diaphragm of animal skin, stiffened with potassium dichromate and a metal disk
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1854· 1 entry
Meucci's wife Esterre became an invalid due to rheumatoid arthritis
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1850· 1 entry
The third renewal of Meucci's contract with Don Francisco Martí y Torrens expired, and his friendship with General Giuseppe Garibaldi made him a suspect citizen in Cuba
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1849· 2 entries
Developed a popular method of using electric shocks to treat illness and subsequently experimentally developed a device through which one could hear inarticulate human voice
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While providing a treatment to a patient with a 114V electrical discharge, in his laboratory Meucci is claimed to have heard his patient's scream through the piece of copper wire that was between them, from the conductor
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1848· 1 entry
Meucci developed a popular method of using electric shocks to treat rheumatism
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1840· 1 entry
Purchased by Meucci in 1850, and rented to Giuseppe Garibaldi from 1850 to 1854
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1834· 2 entries
Meucci constructed a type of acoustic telephone to communicate between the stage and control room at the Teatro of Pergola
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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
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1808· 1 entry
Born 1808-04-13.
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