MEUCCI-BELL LEGAL PROCESS Using the electromagnetic reactions generated in speech, Meucci used a cone in the ear and another in the mouth to perceive the sound, by means of a conductive thread connected with various batteries to produce electricity, to which He immediately received the name “talking telegraph.” He arrived in NYC in 1850 and remained there until the end of his life. There he built a more refined device in 1854, a telephone to connect his office with the bedroom of his wife, who suffered from rheumatism. He wanted to patent his “talking telegraph,” but since he did not have the money to do so, he presented it to Western Union (founded in 1851), although then under the name of the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, which did not pay attention to it, Bell bought later that patent, although in the end MEUCCI’s contribution was recognized. Charles BOURSEUL (1829-1912), predicted that the human voice would be transmitted through electromagnetic procedures. BOURSEUL devised a device like that of wire telegraphy: open and. close a circuit, digital procedure, using continuous signals. In 1861 Philipp REIS (1834-1874) built a telephone in Germany according to BOURSEUL’s guidelines, with which he could transmit only tones, speech; not sentences.