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Gray (ELISHA an American inand)

ELISHA, an American inand Religion" (1880). He died in Cam- bridge, Mass., Jan. 30, 1888. 1835; was educated at Oberlin College.

He designed a self-adjusting telegraph relay in 1867 and a little later invented He designed a self-adjusting telegraph for hotels, the telegraphic repeater, the private telegraph line printer, etc. In 1876 he claimed the invention of the telephone, but after a notable contest the courts decided in favor of Alexander Graham Bell. In 1893 Professor Gray born in Boston, Mass., in 1829; was graduated at Harvard in 1845, and its

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