Who invented the telephone? The first person that comes into mind, as taught by our science teachers when we studied inventors and scientists in grade school, is Alexander Graham Bell. But it appears that we were all wrong the entire time. Bell being the inventor of the telephone has been debunked in 2002 when the US Congress casted a vote and ruled out that it was an impoverished, little-known mechanical genius Antonio Meucci who developed the first telephone rather than Bell.

In a resolution by the House of the Representatives, it stated, “It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognized, and his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged.”