Invention of the telephone issued to Bell." The Meucci resolution by the US Congress was promptly followed by a Canada legislative motion by Canada's 37th Parliament, declaring Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone. Others in Canada disagreed with the Congressional resolution, some of whom provided criticisms of both its accuracy and intent. A retired director general of the Telecom Italia central telecommunications research institute (CSELT), Basilio Catania, and the Italian Society of Electrotechnics, "Federazione Italiana di Elettrotecnica", have devoted a Museum to Antonio Meucci, constructing a chronology of his invention of the telephone and tracing the history of the two legal
Canadian Parliamentary Motion on Alexander Graham Bell the parliamentary Bell motion and the congressional Meucci resolution, first commented on Bell's record as an inventor and scientist: Professor Catania later went on to note the straightforwardness of the follow-up parliamentary motion compared to the seaminess of the initial congressional resolution: However, intellectual property law author R.B. Rockman was more critical in his view of HRes 269. After first reviewing the essential details of "American Bell Telephone Company v. Globe Telephone Company, Antonio Meucci, et al." (31 Fed 728 (SDNY, 1887)), where he noted major inconsistencies in Meucci's various testimonies, the paucity of direct evidence that both the Globe