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 <a href="/c/books/credit/759009/telephone/">telephone</a> prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois. Some recent authors have argued that Gray should be considered the true inventor of the telephone because <a href="/c/books/credit/759006/alexander-graham-bell/">Alexander Graham Bell</a> allegedly stole the idea of the liquid transmitter from him.