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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An illustrated program about Elisha Gray presented by Roderic Knight, Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at Oberlin College. Gray was an Ohio native, atte...
