Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. You can read the resolution (107th Congress, H Res 269) on. His role in the invention of the telephone was overlooked until the United States House of Representatives passed a Resolution on June 11, 2002, honoring Meucci’s contributions and work. Due to hardships, Meucci could not renew his caveat. In 1871, he filed a caveat (an announcement of an invention) for his design of a talking telegraph. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.Īntonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, began developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849.
Louise Brooks … holding telephones, with various other models on table before her. After all it was his design that was first patented, however, he was not the first inventor to come up with the idea of a talking telegraph. Of course, Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. There have been court cases, books, and articles generated about the subject.
There is a lot of controversy and intrigue surrounding the invention of the telephone.
In Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Often credit goes to the inventor of the most practical or best working invention rather than to the original inventor(s). Emile Berliner collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.Īttributing the true inventor or inventors to a specific invention can be tricky business. Alexander Graham Bell is credited with being the inventor of the telephone since his patent and demonstrations for an apparatus designed for “transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically…causing electrical undulations” were successful.
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