Elisha Grey Biography
Title: Elisha Grey Biography
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 694 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Elisha Grey Biography
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 694 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Elisha grey was born in Barnesville, Ohio in 1835. He could manage to build a working model of Morse's Telegraph before he turned 10. When he went to college he was intrigued by electricity, and his teacher told him to continue his interest in electricity and telegraphs. He gained most of his smarts from his hands. He quoted "While studying natural philosophy, it was my custom to make and carry with me into the class such apparatus
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discouraged.
Alexander Bell was the first person to patent his first telephone. The telegraph and telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph. He had won the legal battle against Elisha Gray in the invention of the telephone. When Bell began experimenting with electrical signals, the telegraph had been an established means of communication for some 30 years.