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Description
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (1808–1889) was an Italian inventor and associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
Meucci set up a form of voice-communication link in his Staten Island, New York, home that connected the second-floor bedroom to his laboratory. He submitted a patent caveat for his telephonic device to the U.S. Patent Office in 1871, but there was no mention of electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound in his caveat. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound by undulatory electric current. Despite the longstanding general crediting of Bell with the accomplishment, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities supported celebrations of Meucci's 200th birthday in 2008 using the title "Inventore del telefono" (Inventor of the telephone).
Artist: Claudia Momoni
Obverse
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Depicts a portrait of Antonio Meucci; below, on the left, the name of the designer “C. MOMONI”; around “REPUBBLICA ITALIANA”. REPUBBLICA ITALIANA |
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Reverse
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Depicts a representation of telephonic communications: electrical signals and optical fibres create vortexes around the terrestrial globe, placed on the upper left. in the vortexes, in the centre of the coin the value and the mint mark. The dates of the anniversary are inside a square below the globe. ANTONIO MEUCCI |
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