More than 145 years have passed since Alexander Graham Bell

patented the telephone in 1876, referred to as a device that

transmitted sounds over a cable through electrical signals. Bell
was long considered the inventor of the telephone, along with
Elisha Gray. However, the Scottish researcher was not the
inventor of this device, but only the first to patent it.
In this sense, Alexander Graham Bell is considered to have
"borrowed" his idea since it all came much earlier. The
telettrophone or telephone was invented in 1854 by the Italian
Antonio Meucci. The purpose was simple: to connect his office
with the bedroom so he could talk to his sick wife lying
motionless in bed due to a serious illness. The device was capable
of transmitting acoustic signals at a distance through electrical
signals. In this line, the precursor of the current telephone is
actually Meucci.
But unfortunately he did not have the money to pay for the
development of said invention. In 1871 Meucci was only able,
due to financial difficulties, to present a brief description of his
invention, but not to formalize the patent before the United States
Patent Office. It was not until June 11, 2002 when the United
States Congress recognized Antonio Meucci as the true author of
the telephone after ratifying resolution 269, which recognized that
the inventor of the telephone had been Antonio Meucci.