Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for his work on the telephone. Although Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the invention, Gray filed a patent for a similar device on the same day, leading to a famous legal dispute. He also co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company and contributed significantly to the development of telegraphy and underwater signaling. Gray authored several books, including "Experimental Researches in Electro-Harmonic Telegraphy" and "Nature’s Miracles," which explored various scientific concepts for a general audience.

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CHAPTER I. THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN. The writer has spent much of his time for thirty-five years in the study of electricity and in inventing appliances for purposes of transmitting intelligence electrically between distant points, and is perhaps more familiar with the phenomena of electricity than with those of any other branch of physics; yet he finds it still the most difficult of all the natural... more...

INTRODUCTION. Dear Reader: Please look through this "Introduction" before beginning with the regular chapters. It is always well to know the object, aim, and mode of treatment of a book before reading it, so as to be able to look at it from the author's view-point. First: A word about the title—"Nature's Miracles." Some may claim that it is unscientific to speak of the... more...