Okay, I know this one is true. His names Bell! School children all over the world know he invented the phone!
Thats been the official line for quite some time but recently its been overturned in favour of a little Florentine gentleman by the name of Antonio Meucci, whod worked for years and years on many working models of what would eventually become the telephone. Ill health and poverty, not to mention a poor command of the English language all conspired to prevent Meucci from filing the correct patent documentation. Meanwhile, the clever and astute businessman Bell, a friend of Thomas Edisons who had the sharp, ruthless marketing mind that Meucci did not, happened to have access to Meuccis documentation and models during the time that Meucci was unable to sort out a patent... documentation and models that later were said to have been misplaced. Meucci sued, but lawyers ran rings around him in court, and the poor man didnt have the documentation to prove his claims any longer. About to lose the case, Meucci died before this could take place. Now, far be it from us to say that any one man has swindled the living hell out of another lets just say that in 2002, the US Congress officially recognised Meucci as the inventor of the telephone, and leave it at that.
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