Antonio Meucci Birthday, Date of Birth
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. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current. Despite the longstanding general crediting of Bell with the accomplishment, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities supported celebrations of Meucci's 200th birthday in 2008 using the title "Inventore del telefono" (Inventor of the telephone). The U.S. House of Representatives in a resolution in 2002 also acknowledged Meucci's work in the invention of the telephone, although the U.S. Senate did not join the resolution and the interpretation of the resolution is disputed.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, April 13, 1808
- Place of Birth
- Florence
- Age
- 217
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 13, 1808 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 103 day of the year. President of the United States was Thomas Jefferson.
If you were born on this day, you are 217 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 13, 2025, 158 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 13, 2026, in 206 days. You have lived for 79,416 days, or about 1,906,003 hours, or about 114,360,194 minutes, or about 6,861,611,640 seconds.
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