Elisha gray biography inventors
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Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
Legal dispute over the invention of the telephone
The Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell controversy concerns the question of whether Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham 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.
At issue are roles of each inventor's lawyers, the filing of patent documents, and allegations of theft.
Background
[edit]Alexander Graham Bell was a professor of elocution at Boston University and tutor of deaf children. He had begun electrical experiments in Scotland in 1867 and, after emigrating to Boston from Canada, pursued research into a method of telegraphy that could transmit multiple messages over a single wire simultaneously, a so-called "harmonic telegraph". Bell formed a partnership with two of his students' parents, including prominent Boston lawyer Gardiner Hubbard
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Elisha Gray and the Race to Patent the Telephone
Elisha Gray was an American inventor who contested the invention of the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell. Elisha Gray invented a utgåva of the telephone in his laboratory in Highland Park, Illinois.
Background - Elisha Gray 1835-1901
Elisha Gray was a Quaker from rural Ohio who grew up on a farm. He studied electricity at Oberlin College. In 1867, Gray received his first patent for an improved telegraph relay. During his lifetime, Elisha Gray was granted over seventy patents for his inventions, including many important innovations in electricity. In 1872, Gray founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, the great-grandparent of today's Lucent Technologies.
Patent Wars - Elisha Gray Vs Alexander Graham Bell
On February 14, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent application entitled "Improvement in Telegraphy" was filed at the USPTO by Bell's attorney Marcellus Bailey. Elisha Gray's attorney f
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Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray invented numerous improvements in the telegraph and telephone industries, including the telautograph, a forerunner of the modern day fax machine.
Born in Barnesville, Ohio, Gray had developed an interest in telegraphic communication from an early age and built a working prototype at age ten, less than a year after the first telegraph line was erected. After attending Oberlin College for two years, Gray established himself as an electrician while simultaneously designing and inventing various telegraphic devices, including a telegraphic relay in 1867 that won him patronage from Western Union. Gray subsequently became a founder of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, which manufactured telegraphic instruments. In 1875, Gray sold his share of Western Electric to become a full-time inventor.
Pursuing his goals of advancing telegraph and telephone technology, Gray became engaged in a race with Alexander Graham Bell to invent a telephonic transmitting d