Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was a well-known inventor born in Italy in the eighteenth century. He was not born in a well-to-do family and had to opt out of full-time education. But his financial condition did not deter him from pursuing education and he worked some odd jobs to pay for his studies. In all the jobs he was engaged in, he experimented with technology and invented devices and systems which helped in scientific advancement. Once he was appointed as a stage technician at the ‘Teatro della Pergola’ theatre and there he experimented with technology and invented a communicating device ranging from control room to the stage. He was later employed at a medical clinic and there too he invented a device to treat rheumatic patients. In this method, electric shocks were given to the patients in order to provide them relief, and while working on this system he conceived the idea of creating a new device which would make incoherent voices clearly audible. He also dabbled with entrepreneurship and established a candle factory, but this venture was shut down due to financial constraints. Meucci’s poverty hindered his inventions in a huge way and though he successfully invented many new devices, he could not patent these under his name. One such device was his communicating apparatus which many regard as the first telephonic device.