When did the U.S. House of Representatives acknowledge Meucci's work?
2002
1995
2010
1980
Answer
In 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives formally recognized Antonio Meucci's contributions to the development of the telephone. This acknowledgment came over a century after Meucci's initial invention, which was patented in 1871. Meucci's work had been largely overlooked in favor of Alexander Graham Bell, who received the patent for the telephone in 1876.
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