Hello? U.S. claims Canada's greatest invention

Congress awards creation of telephone to Italian inventor living in New York

In a pronouncement that has surprised generations of schoolchildren and wounded Canadian pride, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution saying Alexander Graham Bell wasn't the person who invented the telephone.

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Well, the only problem with the headline is...

<blockquote>Antonio Meucci's invention of the first electronic technology for transmitting voice occurred in 1849 in Havana, Cuba, where he lived from 1835-1850. In 1998 the Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia published a booklet on "Los Días Cubanos de Antonio Meucci y el Nacimiento de la Telefonia".
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Thomas Edison also filed a patent for a telephone, IIRC, but was beaten by Graham Bell.