Elisha Gray

Also known as Gray National Telautograph Company

American electrical engineer

Person · Open Library

Works: 6

Top works

Familiar Talks on Science
Nature's Miracles Volume III
Nature's Miracles : Energy and Vibration
Nature's Miracles, Volume 1
Nature's Miracles

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1968-06-13

alternativealternative rockbritishcontemporary folkfolkfolk rock

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 189
Total plays: 1,293

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 13,878x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,147x
A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk
· 1999 · cited 12,138x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't
· 1996 · cited 10,952x

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Quotes

“Those who believe that the laws of nature are the creations of a beneficent and all-wise Intelligence will see in this exception to the general law in the case of freezing water a striking evidence of design. But those who have no such belief will say it is a most fortunate though fortuitous circumstance (a saying they will have to make, regarding thousands of other things in nature), and go on floundering in the interminable sea of "I don't know."”
“Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.”
“The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,--if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!”
“What shall we say of the Intelligence that plans all this? Can the Creator be less than the creature? Shall we not say that Intelligence is indestructible, and its measure is its Power to adapt means to ends? Intelligence, Matter, Energy — nature's trinity in her manifestations.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1835-08-02 ) August 2, 1835, Barnesville , Ohio , U.S.
Died: January 21, 1901 (1901-01-21) (aged 65), Newtonville , Massachusetts , U.S.
Occupation: Engineer/Inventor
Awards: Elliott Cresson Medal (1897)

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date of birth: 1835-08-02
date of death: 1901-01-21
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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. Some recent authors have argued that Gray should be considered the true inventor of the telephone because Alexander Graham Bell allegedly stole the idea of the liquid transmitter from him. Gray had been using liquid transmitters in his telephone experiments for more than two years previously; however, Bell's patent was upheld in court.

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