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Park, MD (USA) –RG60, File 6921–1885, Box 10 (or Massachusetts–Box 137), Folder. Also “Deposition of Antonio Meucci” (Defendants’ Exhibits No. 111, 122 & 123), Part 2, pp. 1–9, New York Public Library. Also “Deposition of Thomas D. Stetson” (Defendants’ Exhibit 141 1/2), Records of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, “American Bell Telephone Co. et al. vs. Globe Telephone Co. et al.,” National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, New York, NY. Also Records of the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts, “United States of America vs. American Bell Telephone Co. and Alexander Graham Bell,” Exhibit from Defendants, National Archives and Record Administration–New England Region, 380 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA (USA)
8 Caveat as recorded in the Records of the Supreme Court. Possibly referenced by [5]. Reproduced with the permission of the Garibaldi–Meucci Museum.
9 Meucci testimony, Bell vs. Globe, Answer #94. See Ref. 1
10 Ref. 5, answer 94.
11 Ref, 1, p. 166–168.
12 Ref. 1, p 180.
13 Alexander Graham Bell, “Prehistoric Telephone Days,” National Geographic Magazine XLI(3) (March 1922).
14 Edwin Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson, “Alexander Graham Bell, The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone” relates that in Oct, 1874 Alexander Graham Bell stated his basic idea for the telephone.
15 A. G. Bell, Improvement in Telegraphy, U.S. Patent No.174465, filed Feb. 14, 1876, granted Mar. 7, 1876, USPTO. A. G. Bell, Improvement in Electric Telegraphy, U.S. Patent No. 186787, filed Jan. 15, 1877, granted Jan. 30, 1877, USPTO.
16 See Ref. 18, “2003c_Toronto_Univ.ppt”. “US/Bell (1) and
Bell/Globe (2)”. Articles on the Meucci–Globe trials appeared in the 9 November, 1885 Chicago Tribune (under (Telephone Patents”), and the December, 1885 Scientific American, “Meucci’s Claims to the Telephone” (see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/ 13401/13401-h/13401-h.htm#13).
17 H. A. Frederick, “Development of the microphone,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 3(1), 1–30 (1931).
18 B. Catania, Meucci Twin CD, Available on request.
19 Ref. 19, Fig. 2 and ref. 19, August 18, 1870.
20 B. Catania, Antonio Meucci, Inventor of the Telephone: Unearthing the
Legal and Scientific Proofs, New York University, Casa Italiana Zerilli- Marimò, New York, NY, 10 October 2000, also published in Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 24(2), 115–137 (April 1994).
21 U.S. Congressional Record: House of Representatives, on June 11, 2002, U.S. Congress enacted House Resolution 269 (Jo Ann Davis, H3308 insert of 5-03-03) that Antonio Meucci, then an Italian- American candle maker, is credited for inventing the telephone, 5 years before Bell.
22 Basilio Catania, “Antonio Meucci: How electrotherapy gave birth to telephony,” European Transactions on Telecommunications 14, 539–552 (2004).
23 B. Catania, Antonio Meucci: How electrotherapy gave birth to teleph- ony, ETT—European Transactions on Telecommunications 14( No. 6, November/December 2003, p. 539–552. Errata Corrige of Fig. 12 on Vol. 15, No. 3, May/June 2004, p. 293.
24 B. Catania, Antonio Meucci –L’Inventore e il suo Tempo – Da Firenze a L’Avana (Vol. 1). Seat – Divisione STET, Editoria per la Communicazione, Roma, 1994 and Catania, B., Antonio Meucci –L’Inventore e il suo Tempo – New York, 1850-1871 (Vol. 2) . Seat – Divisione STET, Torino, 1996—Translation in English included in Ref. 3.
Angelo J. Campanella received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1955 in Physics and Electrical Engineering with the- ses in Acoustics and ultrasound. He is a professional engineer in Ohio and Pennsylvania, with over 50 years experi- ence in industrial physics, electronics,
applied acoustics and vibrations.
He has presented and published technical papers on
acoustics, noise and the associated hearing loss. These
include room design for noise protection, acoustical privacy and comfort, speech intelligibility and design for quiet in meeting rooms and classrooms, vibration control in build- ings and community noise due to transportation and aircraft operations. He has testified as an expert witness on occupa- tional noise and its effects on personnel, and the effects of noise on residential and commercial land use.
He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), a distinguished member of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Committee E-33 on Environmental Acoustics (participating in the drafting of national and interna- tional acoustical material measurement standards), National Council of Acoustical Consultants, the Concert Hall Research Group, and the Institute of Noise Control Engineers. Angelo formed the Central Ohio Chapter of ASA in 1976 and currently serves as its president. He is an aircraft owner and pilot holding commercial, instrument and flight instructor ratings.
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