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Antonio Meucci

1808 - 1889

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Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci ( may-OO-chee, Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo meˈuttʃi]; 13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889) 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. Meucci set up a form of voice-communication link in his Staten Island, New York, home that connected the second-floor bedroom to his laboratory. He submitted a patent caveat for his telephonic device to the U.S. Patent Office in 1871, but there was no mention of electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound in his caveat. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio Meucci is the 36th most popular inventor (down from 27th in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from Italy (down from 410th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Inventor.

Antonio Meucci is most famous for inventing the telephone.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Antonio Meucci ranks 36 out of 426. Before him are Abbas ibn Firnas, Jimmy Wales, Ernő Rubik, Samuel Colt, Gideon Sundback, and John Herschel. After him are Igor Sikorsky, László Bíró, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Frank Whittle, Bob Kahn, and Ismail al-Jazari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Antonio Meucci ranks 7. Before him are Napoleon III, Honoré Daumier, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Andrew Johnson, Patrice de MacMahon, and Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria. After him are Jefferson Davis, Frederick VII of Denmark, Emir Abdelkader, Gérard de Nerval, Johann Gustav Droysen, and David Strauss. Among people deceased in 1889, Antonio Meucci ranks 3. Before him are James Prescott Joule, and Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria. After him are Jefferson Davis, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Lucy Webb Hayes, Yohannes IV, Luís I of Portugal, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Father Damien, Alexandre Cabanel, and Mihai Eminescu.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Meucci ranks 514 out of 5,161. Before him are Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Cesare Beccaria (1738), Maria Anna of Savoy (1803), Tinto Brass (1933), Pope Hilarius (415), and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666). After him are Totila (500), Pope Stephen VIII (900), Lucky Luciano (1897), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Zeuxis (-500), and Octavia the Younger (-69).

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Among INVENTORS In Italy

Among inventors born in Italy, Antonio Meucci ranks 4. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), and Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655). After him are Johann Maria Farina (1685), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), Angelo Moriondo (1851), Max Valier (1895), Giovanni Caselli (1815), and Andrew Viterbi (1935).

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