Middlesex County MA Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Elisha January 20, 1901
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Jan 28, 1901
Professor Elisha Gray Dead
One of the Best-Known Inventors of the Day.
Newton, Mass., January 21. -- Professor Elisha Gray, of Chicago, who was 
associated with Arthur J. Munday in the perfection of a system for submarine 
signaling, died suddenly at Newtonville last night.  Mr. Gray had complained of 
a slight acidity of the stomach.  Neuralgia of the heart is assigned as the 
cause of death.  He was stricken while he was on the street.  He was picked up 
in an unconscious condition and carried into a neighboring house, where he died.

Elisha Gray was one of the best known of the electrical inventors of the day.  
He was born in Ohio in 1835.

In 1867 he began his series of inventions with a self-adjusting telegraph relay 
and two years later he established a manufactory of electrical apparatus at 
Cleveland.  He perfected the typewriting telegraph, the telegraph repeater, the 
telegraphic switch and annunciator and other devices.

In 1872 he organized the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, but retired 
from it in 1874.  He invented his speaking telephone in 1876 and the 
telautograph in 1893.

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