What was the first phone

Question: What was the first phone
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Asked by ells to Matthew, K, Jacque, Hazel, Fiona on 15 Mar 2018.
- K Sasitharan answered on 15 Mar 2018:
  
  Italian innovator Antonio Meucci is known for inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.

Question: What was the first phone