Unquestionably the most prolific inventor ever to make his home in Highland Park was Elisha Gray, who filed with the U.S. Patent Office the same day as Alexander Graham Bell an apparatus to “transmit ...

On this day in tech history, Elisha Gray, an electrical engineer known for his telephone patent battle with Alexander Graham Bell and his other telegraph inventions, was born in Ohio. Gray attended ...

Legal documents, photographs, articles, copies of correspondence, three folders of original Gray correspondence on the Gray-Bell controversy; most of the collection consists of copies of material, or ...

Elisha Gray for more than a century one of Highland Park’s best-known citizens, has forever been intertwined in the tangled and intriguing tale of the telephone’s beginning. His post-college career, ...

Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990 Elisha Gray and "The Musical Telegraph" (1876) Elisha Gray (born in Barnesville, Ohio, on Aug. 2, 1835, died Newtonville, Mass., on Jan. 21, 1901) would have ...

Although Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the official patent for the telephone in 1876, research conveys that there were countless others who attempted to file a caveat for their own version of the ...

While the smartphone patent wars have captivated recent legal news cycles, a much more controversial telephone war occurred in the late 1870s and 1880s based on a strange and curious fact – Alexander ...

BOSTON – A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In "The Telephone ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...