In New York City, Antonio Meucci died, who invented the phone but had no merit. This engineer and inventor invented the teletrophone, which would then be called the telephone, but because of the sabotage he suffered and the lack of money to patent the invention, Graham Bell patented the invention before. Meucci went to court, but the trial was closed in 1889. In 2002, the US House of Representatives acknowledged that the invention of the phone was made by Meucci and the Italian government honors it with the title “Inventore ufficiale del telefónica”.