When asked who invented the telephone , most people say it was Scot, Alexander Granham Bell. However, in 2002 the U.S. Congress agreed that the true     1     was an unknown Italian citizen,     2     died in poverty in New York. And his name is Antonio Meucci. Antonio Meucci was born in Florence in 1808. In the 1830s, he got into trouble with the authorities for his political views and after a period in prison, he decided to move to Cuba. There he continued     3     on his inventions and discovered that sounds could travel     4     wires. In 1850, Meucci moved to the United States, where he     5     he would have more opportunities to develop his ideas. When his wife became ill, he developed a primitive telephone system     6     that she could “phone” him from her bed while he was working. Around 1860, he demonstrated(展示) his latest invention,     7     because he didn’t speak English well, few people     8     interested. Then in 1870, he became ill himself and had to sell his plans to pay     9     doctors. Meanwhile , another person , Alexander Granham Bell, was working on a similar idea and     10       rest is history.