ANTONIO MEUCCI An invention none of us could live without, a tool of modern communications so basic that many of today's business and social activities would be inconceivable in its absence, the telephone, is at the center of a series of events so strange as to amount to a whodunit. Most of us were brought up on the story of Alexander Graham Bell, the romantic figure of an inventor with dash ...

A paper by Basilio Catania on Antonio Meucci 's priority in introducing inductive loading on long distance telephone lines ...