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Gray, Elisha

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Gray, Elisha (1835–1901)

US inventor, manufacturer, and founder of Western Electric Co. He claimed to have invented the telephone in the 1870s, but lost the patent rights to Alexander Graham Bell in a case eventually decided in the US Supreme Court. Gray was born in Barnesville, Ohio. He worked as a blacksmith, a boatbuilder, and a carpenter before starting a small business to make telegraphic equipment of his own invention. In all, he held in excess of 70 patents, including one for a multiplex telegraph.



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