A small museum in Centro Habana's Etecsa Telepunto office. Among the antique phones and telegraph equipment is some interesting material relating to Italian inventor Antonio Meucci, who lived in Havana from 1835 to 1850 and whose research helped spark the invention of the telephone.
Museo de las Telecomunicaciones
Havana
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