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In Your WordsTo the Editor: I take strong exception to Andrew Heisel’s declaration that Alexander Graham Bell made the “first” telephone call 150 years ago in “What the Telephone Can Teach Us, 150 Years Later” (Opinion guest essay, March 12): Beginning in 1850 — when Bell may have still been in diapers — Antonio Meucci discovered that sound could travel through a wire. Meucci perfected his invention so that he could speak with his ill, bedridden wife on the “telettrofono” (as he called it) from his laboratory on Staten Island. Because of his limited English, biases against Italians at the time and the fact that he was poor and could not afford a patent, Meucci did not get the credit he deserved. Finally in 2002, thanks to then-Representative Vito Fossella (currently the Staten Island borough president), the House of Representatives passed a resolution recognizing Meucci’s contribution to the invention of the telephone. When historians find convincing evidence for rethinking what they once believed, we should set the record straight. Frances R. Curcio, Staten Island The writer is an author of “The Case of Antonio Meucci and the Telephone: Just the Facts.” Read more Letters to the Editor We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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