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Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.
Elisha Gray was a U.S. inventor and contestant with Alexander Graham Bell in a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone. Gray invented a number of telegraphic devices and in 1869 was one of two partners who founded what became Western Electric Company.
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Learn about Elisha Gray, an American inventor who challenged Alexander Graham Bell's claim to the telephone patent. See his patent caveat, drawings, and specifications for his version of the telephone.
Jun 27, 2018 · Learn about Elisha Gray, who patented the self-adjusting telegraph relay, the telegraphic repeater and the type-printing telegraph. He also claimed to invent the telephone, but lost the patent dispute to Alexander Graham Bell.
Jan 22, 2016 · Elisha Gray was an electrical engineer considered by some to be the true inventor of the telephone, despite losing out the patent to Alexander Graham Bell. Gray was born in 1835 in a Quaker family in Ohio.
Aug 2, 2019 · Elisha Gray (1835-1901) was an American electrical engineer who developed a telephone device in 1876 and a musical telegraph in 1874. He lost the patent race to Alexander Graham Bell, but was a prolific inventor and professor of dynamic electricity.
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Aug 2, 2021 · Learn about Elisha Gray, a technological whiz who developed prototypes of the telephone, the electronic music synthesizer, the fax machine and more. Find out how he competed with Alexander Graham Bell for the patent and why his invention is now credited as the first successful telephone prototype.
