Elisha Gray

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

2 August 1835

Born on the same birth day (2 August): August 2 • Benjamin Barber • Betsy Bloomingdale • Butch Vig • Constantine I of Greece • Gael Bussa • George E. Stewart • Grainne Leahy • K. Arulanandan • Mary Hamman • Miguel Mendonca • Philippe II, Duke of Orléans • Philo Wallace • Pierre Charles L'Enfant • Saskia van Uylenburgh • Stefan Effenberg

Born in the same month (August 1835): Hjalmar Kiærskou • Tom Wills