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Elisha Gray Kept Innovation On The Front Burner Never Give Up: Hours too late to patent the phone, his determination led to the development of the early fax machine.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)(BEST OF LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: AMY REEVES
Ask any schoolchild: Who invented the telephone? The likeliest exuberant answer: Alexander Graham Bell.
The truth's more complicated. Bell filed his patent application in 1876, all right. But just hours later, inventor Elisha Gray (1835-1901) filed a caveat for his version.
Gray didn't know about Bell's patent. Still, when Bell's version hit big, Gray sued.
Bell, as we know, won the battle. But Bell's legend doesn't lessen Gray's work.
Gray owned some 70 patents on other inventions. How about one of the world's first electronic musical instruments? Or an early version of the fax machine?
Gray co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Co. -- still with us today in the form of Lucent Technologies. He wrote several books on electronics and taught for many years at Oberlin College in Ohio.
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