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Elisha Gray
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American electrical engineer
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elisha
- Family name
- Gray
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Barnesville
- Place of death
- Newtonville
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- Oberlin College
- Employer
- Oberlin College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- telephony
- Image
- Portrait elisha gray.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1835-08-02
- date of death
- 1901-01-21
- Commons category
- Elisha Gray
- place of burial
- Rosehill Cemetery
- Commons gallery
- Elisha Gray
- Commons Creator page
- Elisha Gray
- name in native language
- Elisha Gray
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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