Antonio Meucci

✶April 13, 1808

†October 18, 1889

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About their life

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.

Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)

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Biography from the article Antonio Meucci on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.