Garibaldi Meucci Museum

420 Tompkins Avenue
Staten Island, NY, 10305
718-442-1608

URL : http://www.nysosia.org/museum.html

overview : The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, owned and operated by the Order Sons of Italy in America, is a historic house preserved as a memorial to the lives of Antonio Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Antonio Meucci, a native of Florence, Italy, lived here until his death in 1889. In 1849, while experimenting with the new phenomenon of electricity, he discovered that sound could be transmitted by electric wires

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