Elisha Gray

Background

An American electrical engineer and co-founder of what became Western Electric.

Contribution

Filed a patent caveat for a telephone on the same day in 1876 as Bell's application, at the center of a lasting priority dispute.

Associated inventions

• The Telephone

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Antonio Meucci

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• Smithsonian — National Museum of American HistorySmithsonian Institution · Museum
• United States Patent and Trademark Office — patent recordsUSPTO · Government / archive

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