On March 7, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received patent № 174,465 US for “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically by causing electrical undulations”, which actually describes a telephone. But the same idea was simultaneously developed by several other enthusiasts, and there is still a lot of controversy over who was the first. On June 11, 2002 the US Congress recognized the contributions of Italian immigrant Antonio Meucci made to the invention of the telephone. Congress recognized that due to financial hardship Meucci failed to either modify or to extend his preliminary application in 1871, otherwise the invention patent № 174,465 would not have been issued
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