Gray, ELISHA,

Gray, ELISHA, an American inventor, was born at Barnesville, Ohio, 2d August 1835, and studied at Oberlin College, meanwhile supporting himself by working as a carpenter. He was afterwards engaged in the manufacture of telegraphic apparatus. His patents number about fifty, including several for the speaking telephone, of which he claims the invention, and others for a multiplex telegraph, by which he has succeeded in sending eight messages at a time.