News Flash: U.S. House of Representatives Says Alexander Graham Bell Did Not Invent the Telephone By HNN Staff Mail it to a friend "Bell, Alexander Graham (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1847; d. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1922), inventor of telephone." Dictionary of American Biography "Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognized, and his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged." United States House of Representatives, June 11, 2002 On June 11, to little fanfare, the United State House of Representatives declared that the...