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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.
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- Elliott Cresson Medal (1897)
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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Elisha Gray was an American inventor who contested the invention of the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell. He filed a patent caveat for a version of the telephone in 1876, but was denied by the USPTO. Learn about his background, patent wars, and legacy in this article.
The Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell controversy concerns the question of whether Gray and Bell invented the telephone independently. This issue is narrower than the question of who deserves credit for inventing the telephone, for which there are several claimants.
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.
Aug 2, 2019 · Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who developed a telephone prototype in 1876 and lost the patent race to Alexander Graham Bell. He also invented a musical telegraph and a modern music synthesizer. Learn more about his life, inventions, and legacy in this blog post.
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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.
