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IT is with great regret that we learn of the death of Prof. Elisha Gray on January 21. Prof. Gray was born at Barnesville, Ohio, in 1835; he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and during the time of his apprenticeship he studied physical science. At the age of twenty-one he went to Oberlin College, where he worked for five years, and at which he afterwards became professor. Prof. Gray first turned his attention to electrical invention when at the age of about thirty; he then invented a self-adjusting telegraphic relay. This was soon followed by other inventions of telegraphic apparatus. In all he took put about fifty patents, mostly dealing with telegraphy and telephony; one of the latest of these, and one of the best known, was the telautograph, a telegraphic apparatus, for transmitting handwriting to a distance. At the time of his death he was engaged in carrying out experiments on a method of marine signalling with electric bells by which the sounds could be transmitted several miles through the water. In the course of these experiments, we understand from an American contemporary, he caught a chill which caused his sudden death.
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Prof. Elisha Gray . Nature 63, 378 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063378a0
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