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...TELEPHONE Was It Bell, Gray, Reis or Meucci...
...Italian Antonio Meucci set up the world's first phone line, on Staten Island, N.Y. But he never marketed his idea. A few years later the German Johann Philipp Reis made a device he dubbed a telephone, over which he transmitted music. Alexander Graham Bell knew of Reis' experiments, and by 1876 had created the modern phone. A few hours after Bell filed his patent papers, Elisha Gray submitted an application for his own phone. Since Bell was first to apply, he reaped the glory...
...your article on the telephone, you mention "more than 600 patent lawsuits" in which Bell was involved before his patents expired. May I call to your attention one particular lawsuit, that of Antonio Meucci, 1808-1889, a native of Florence, Italy, who claimed the invention of the telephone...
...Garibaldi and Meucci Memorial Museum...
...claims of Meucci, Gray, Reis, Dolbear and numerous others were all fought out in the courts. The Bell patents were upheld in 1888 by the U.S. Supreme Court...