| Birth: | Aug. 2, 1835
Barnesville
Belmont County
Ohio, USA | | Death: | Jan. 21, 1901
Newton
Middlesex County
Massachusetts, USA | 
Inventor, Educator. He was a giant in the history of telecommunications not only for his inventions (almost 70 patents), but also for the founding of the Western Electric Company, which became the manufacturing side of the old Bell System. Gray was in direct competition with Alexander Graham Bell for the invention of the telephone. Bell beat Gray to the patent office by only a few short hours. Also, Gray conceived the idea of a primitive closed-circuit television system which he called the "telephote". Pictures were focused on an array of selenium cells and signals from the selenium cells were transmitted to a distant station on separate wires. At the receiving end, each wire would open or close a shutter to recreate the image. In 1899, Gray moved to Boston where he continued with his inventions. One project that he developed was an underwater signaling device to transmit messages to ships. One such signaling device was tested on December 31, 1900. Three weeks later, on January 21, 1901, Gray died from a heart attack in Newtonville, Massachusetts. (bio by: Bradley Gray)
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Spouse:
Delia M Shepard Gray (1839 - 1919)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Elisha Gray | | | Burial:
Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois, USA
Plot: Section R, Plat 261 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Bradley Gray
Record added: Sep 09, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 41763805 |
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