People from Tuscany: People from the Province of Arezzo, People from the Province of Florence, People from the Province of Grosseto

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Andrea Vacca Berlinghieri, Angelo Pellegrini, Antonio Meucci, Cecchino dei Bracci, Fermo Dante Marchetti, Francesco DeMaria, Gabriella Pescucci, George Schneeman, Jacopo del Casentino, Lazzaro Calamech, Luca della Robbia, Ludovico Buti, Margherita de L'Epine, Michelangelo Anselmi, Niccolo Acciaioli, Niccolo Tribolo, Nicola di Pietro, Orazio Mochi, Orcagna, Paolo Riani, Pino Luongo, Pope Leo I, Robert K. Evans, Silvio Cosini. Excerpt: Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian: 1808-1889) was an Italian inventor and a friend of the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone. Meucci set up a form of voice communication link in his Staten Island home that connected its 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. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current. In 2002 the United States HRes. 269 on Antonio Meucci stated "his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged." Within its preamble it stated that: "if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to A. G. Bell." If Meucci had renewed his caveat, he would have been given an opportunity to prove to the examiner that the device described in his caveat was the electromagnetic telephone described in Bell's patent application. Indeed Italy considers Meucci the inventor of the telephone. Meucci was born at Via dei Serragli 44 in the San Frediano borough of Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, (now in the Italian Republic), on 13 April 1808, as the first of nine children to Amatis and Domenica Meucci. Amatis was an officer of the local police and his mother was principally a homemaker. Four of Meucci's siblings did not survive childhood. In November 1821, at the age of 15, he was admitted to Florence Academy of Fine Arts as its youngest student, where he studied chemical and mechanical engineering. He ceased full time studies two years later due to insufficient funds, but continued studying part time after obtaining employment as an assistant gatekeeper and customs official for the Florentine government. Meucci lat