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Content: "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." Western Union internal memo, 1876
Not too long after the telegraph was invented, Alexander Graham Bellwas credited with inventing an even better way of communicating: the telephone. Although Bell has been commonly associated with this invention, 
at this point in the history of technology it appears that Bell didn't actually 
invent the telephone -- or for that matter Guglielmo Marconi didn't actually 
invent the radio and Thomas Edison didn't invent the electric light. In each case another person has been found who demonstrated 
these inventions first. The fame. however, went to the person who most 
effectively publicized their work. ( Effective PR triumphed over 
technological expertise.) In the case of the telephone, the 107th Congress of the United 
States of America passed House Resolution 269 in 2001 that acknowledged that an 
Italian immigrant named Antonio Meucci actually invented the telephone and Bell 
stole the idea.