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Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine. But conventional wisdom often has it all wrong.

Antonio Meucci (1808-1889) received recognition for the invention of the telephone more than a hundred years after his death. Antonio Meucci, inventor of the telephone, was born in Florence on 13 ...