일라이셔 그레이

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일라이셔 그레이(Elisha Gray, 1835년 8월 2일 오하이오주 반스빌 ~ 1901년 1월 21일 매사추세츠주 뉴턴빌)은 미국의 발명가이다. 독자적으로 전화를 발명했다.

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