Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Lazzaro Spallanzani, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Antonio Meucci, Franco Basaglia, Fausto Veranzio, Eustachio Divini, Carlo Amoretti, Gianni Bellocchi, Giambattista della Porta, Eugenio Curiel, Franciscus Patricius, Giuseppe Moscati, Paolo Boffetta, Vittorio Gallese, Gaetano Crocco, Raimondo di Sangro, Federico Cesi, Francesco Nardelli, Agostino Gemelli, Massimiliano Versace, Ferdinando Galiani, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Giulio Superti-Furga, Luisa Ottolini, Chiara Nappi, Carlo Petrini, Antonio Carini, Vannoccio Biringuccio, Antonella Tosti, Aldo Castellani, Luigi Bodio, Federico Delpino, Antonio Vallisneri, Salvatore Rampone, Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Marco Dorigo, Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, Lorenzo Tenchini, Giovanni Fabbroni, Scipione Breislak, Giovanni Francesco Crivelli, Carlo Gambacorti-Passerini, Giacopo Belgrado, Giuseppe Saverio Poli, Fortunio Liceti, Stefano Nolfi, Nicolo Arrighetti, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Enzo Paoletti, List of Italian scientists, Giovanni Antonelli, Napoleone Ferrara, Francesco Ruggiero, Giorgio Prodi, Gianpiero D. Palermo, Luko Stuli, Vincenzo Antinori, Paolo Gorini, Arnaldo Maria Angelini, Francesco Pona, Paolo Canettieri, Vidus Vidius, Guido of Pisa, Bartholomew Ferrari, Michelangelo Fardella, Filippo Salviati, Tommaso Lo Monaco, Giuseppe Olivi. Excerpt: Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian pronunciation: April 13, 1808 - October 18, 1889) was a compatriot of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, and an inventor, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone. Meucci set up a form of voice communication link in his Staten Island home that connected its second floor bedroom to his laboratory. He submitted a patent caveat for his telephone-like device in 1871, which he did not renew after 1874. In 1876, ...