Born in Florence, but died in New York. He studied chemical and industrial engineering, but he dedicated himself to working at the Teatro Della Pergola in Florence installing and directing the operation of the stage machinery, props and scenic effects artifacts. He participated in the Italian Liberation Movement, spending 1833-34 in prison. In 1835, already married to Esterre Mochi, he decided to leave Italy and settle first in Cuba, then Spanish, working at the Gran Teatro de Tacón, applying one of the practices of electricity, galvanization. Influenced by the German doctor Franz Anton MESMER (1734-1815), who maintained that there is animal magnetism, and that illnesses could be cured by applying electricity and magnetism, MEUCCI tried the practices to combat his wife’s rheumatism, and thus led to the invention of the telephone.