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ANTONIO MEUCCI

...Walking past Meucci’s open study door she spied him—with his long beard, longer than Garibaldi’s and long face with those sagging features of a man with as many thoughts as cares—at his workbench, though it was not yet seven, pouring steaming brownish liquids into strange swan-necked bottles. One morning she was so taken by his dedicated expression that she stopped to ask what he was doing.
“An improved manufacturing method for beer, Signorina.”
Apparently, beer needed improvement as much as candles. Only an exceptional mind could concern itself with such things. Today she said what she thought: “Meucci, you’re a genius.”
“Let’s say a scientist. At any rate, I like to study objects. I wonder how to make them better.”


     
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Page from L'Eco d'Italia in which Antonio Meucci was first proclaimed the real inventor of the telephone, not Alexander Graham Bell.
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In a note dated 1857 Meucci describes his telephone: “it consists in a vibrating diaphragm and in a magnet electrified by a wire wounded around it. When the diaphragm vibrates the magnet modifies the wire current. These modifications, once they reach the other end of the wire, impresses similar vibrations to the receiving diaphragm, which reproduces the words.”



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The first phone call in Italy. Milano - Palazzo Marino (1877)

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