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Elisha Gray
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, although Bell had been using liquid transmitters in his telephone experiments for more than two years previously. Bell's
telephone patent
was held up in numerous court decisions.
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