Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray, "American inventor, who contested the invention of the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell.
http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/ElishaGra...

Elisha Gray
Timing is everything. On Feb 14, 1876, the day that Alexander Graham Bell, filed an application for a patent for his version of the telephone, Elisha Gray applied for a caveat announcing his intention to file a claim for a patent for the same invention...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/pande...

Elisha Gray
Gray invented a number of telegraphic devices and in 1869 was one of two partners who founded what became Western Electric Company
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/GRAY_BIO.html

Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray would have been known to us as the inventor of the telephone, if Alexander Graham Bell hadn't got to the patent office one hour before him
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/gray_elisha.html

Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray's caveat, as it was filed in the United States Patent Office, February 14, 1876
http://bart.tcc.virginia.edu/classes/tcc315/Resources/ALM...

Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray was born in Barnesville, Ohio, on August 2, 1835. Gray had worked as an apprentice to a blacksmith before attending Oberlin College
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=154