[DOC] [TLE] Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy - Wikipedia [PAR] The Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell controversy concerns the question 
of whether Gray and Bell invented the telephone independently. ... On February 
14, Gray's lawyer filed a patent caveat with a similar diagram. ... Bell was with me 
an hour when I showed him the drawing [of Gray's caveat] and explained Gray's... [DOC] [TLE] Who is credited as inventing the telephone? Was it Alexander ... [PAR] Was it Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, or Antonio Meucci? ... Alexander 
Graham Bell is often credited as the inventor of the telephone since he was 
awarded the first successful patent. However, there were many other inventors 
such as Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci who also ... The date was February 14, 
1876. [DOC] [TLE] Elisha Gray - PBS [PAR] The invention that got the nation talking and spawned an industry. ... On February 
14, 1876, the day that Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for ... Elisha 
Gray applied for a caveat announcing his intention to file a claim for a patent for 
the ... invention of the telephone did not tarnish his professional reputation 
however. [DOC] [TLE] Speech transmitted by telephone - Mar 10, 1876 - HISTORY.com [PAR] On February 14, 1876, he filed a U.S. patent application for his telephone. Just a 
few hours later, another American inventor, Elisha Gray, filed a caveat with the 
U.S. ... U.S. patent 174,465, which granted him ownership over both his 
telephone ... After 1878, however, the legal battles were out of Alexander Graham 
Bell's... [DOC] [TLE] The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret [PAR] I bought in to the story that "Elisha Gray was an hour late filing his patent; that Bell 
got there first. ... Shulman claims that Bell illicitly saw the patent caveat that Gray 
filed on Feb. 14, 1876, and copied the drawing of his liquid transmitter. ... Wilbur, 
the patent examiner who claimed that Bell bribed him to reveal the Gray patent. [DOC] [TLE] Telephones facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] The earliest methods involved crude systems such as drum beating or smoke 
signaling. ... Elisha Gray was Alexander Graham Bell's principle rival, first for 
invention of ... Gray prevailed, filing his harmonic telegraph patent application in 
February ... his intent to patent his device on February 14, 1876just two hours 
after Bell... [DOC] [TLE] Telephone - Twinkle Toes Engineering [PAR] Nov 26, 2014 ... Bell telephone invention time line -- 1876 to 1880 ... By a "remarkable 
coincidence" two inventors, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, filed for a 
patent on the ... So to beat him out, they rushed to the patent office with a Bell's 
patent ...... Hand dated 2/11/1876 (Fri before Mon 2/14/1876 caveat filing). [DOC] [TLE] A Capsule History of the Bell System [PAR] Alexander Graham Bell and The Invention Of The Telephone .... Within France, 
however, a series of visual telegraph towers, designed by Claude ..... applying for 
his first patent just three hours before Elisha Gray filed a caveat for a ... But when 
Bell's February 14, 1876, patent application was granted on March 7 of that year
... [DOC] [TLE] 1800  1900  120 Years of Electronic Music [PAR] However, any physics course will show you that tuning forks have an easier ... 
This potential is found in the audible phenomenon of beats, in which two tuning 
forks ... if Alexander Graham bell hadn't got to the patent office one hour before 
him. ... Elisha Gray; Patent notes No. 173,618, Feb. 15, 1876. Gray's invention 
used... [DOC] [TLE] Invention of the telephone - Revolvy [PAR] The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by many ... of 
the idea of an electric voice-transmission device, through failed attempts to use ... 
On February 14, 1876 at the US Patent Office, Gray's lawyer filed a patent ... 
Moreover, when Bell heard the rich overtones of the plucked reed, it occurred to 
him... [DOC] [TLE] The Telephone Gambit : Chasing Alexander

Question: On Feb. 14, 1876 Elisha Gray attempted to file a patent for this invention; however, Bell beat him by hours
Answer: the telephone