Elisha Gray

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1835 – 1901

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Who was Elisha Gray?

Elisha Gray 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. He is considered by some to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.

Gray is also considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer, and was granted over 70 patents for his inventions.

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Born
Aug 2, 1835
Barnesville
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Oberlin College
Lived in
  • Boston
  • Ohio
  • Highland Park
Died
Jan 21, 1901
Newtonville

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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