Nikola Tesla, Antonio Meucci and Andrew Leonardi

I just got this email from Andrea Leonardi of Italy. It’s pretty rare to get emails that mention Meucci, or, for that matter, Tesla. Sweet, no? 

“I bought your book ‘Obsolete’ and I found it great: the guy in me (I’m 28), who grew in the late 80s and ‘started to think’ in the 90s, found all the stuff that belonged to his past! What a nostalgia! 

“I wrote you because under ‘landlines’ word you told that Bell patented the early version of the telephone… For sure you already know that there was a large dispute over the first inventor of the telephone but at the end of the debate even the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Resolution 269 (in 2002). It says that ‘Whereas if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell…’

“I want to say that I’m not the typical italian patriot (even if in Italy there aren’t so many people proud to be italian), but I would to write you because I always felt a lot of pity for Meucci, who died in poverty after had spent a life trying to invent and for science.
Like Tesla: an absolute genious and almost no one know is.

Ok that’s all.. thanks for the attention, and keep up the good work!”