ELISHA GRAY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/11/1891 - HFSID 250805
Sale Price $1,350.00
Reg. $1,600.00
ELISHA GRAY: TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH PIONEER. ALS: "Elisha
Gray", 1p, 4½x7. The Windsor, New York, 1891
December 11. To Miss C.W. Strong, Passaic, N.J. In full: "Your
request for my autograph is received. Here it is. It is not handsome neither is
its owner, but if it will do you any good, you are welcome to it." Elisha
Gray, a brilliant electrical engineer who held over 70 patents, is perhaps best
known for what he didn't do -- patent the telephone before his contemporary,
Alexander Graham Bell. On February 14, 1876, Gray filed his caveat on his
invention of the telephone on the same day that Alexander Graham Bell filed for
his patent. A long, bitter patent infringement battle was decided by the Supreme
Court in favor of Bell. In 1872, Gray organized the Gray and Barton Company,
from which developed the Western Electric Co. He developed numerous inventions
for telegraphy, including the "musical telegraph" (1874), one of the first
electronic musical instruments, and the telautograph (1888), which produced
writing at a distance. Pencil notations (unknown hand) on blank integral leaf.
Fine condition.
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