Lloyd William Taylor's manuscript final draft The Untold Story of the Telephone
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content: Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901 (inventor)
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content: Elisha Gray Collection / Series 7: Lloyd W. Taylor   Manuscripts, Photographs and Miscellaneous
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content: CChapter 1 page 1, Bell vs. Gray for filing of a patent the first telephone didn't have speech through it 

page 7, Court litigation was far too advanced for Gray become involved at such a late date 

page 8, Bell won the case for inventing the telephone 

Chapter 2 page 1, Bell and Gray's competition with various inventions 

page 2-4, short biography of Gray (schooling, inventions, & business partnerships 

page 8, letter from Gray accusing Bell of being very suspicious 

page 9, Bell and Gray would have gotten along if left to themselves 

Chapter 3 page 2, decision of S.C. was four to three in favor of Bell with 2 judges abstaining 

page 3, Dowd case compromise decisions  consent decree

page 6, Gray's feelings of the Compromise

Chapter 4, page 2, Gray received a British patent in June 1874 for transmitting interrupted corrupts and converting them into sound

page 5 & 6   Gray was handicapped because he had a caveat and not a patent

Chapter 5 page 3   Gray had constructed a telephone receiver earlier than Bell

Chapter 7, Discussion of Gray's telephone transmitter and the inadequacy of Bell's transmitter Taylor writings

Taylor Writings:

Chapter 1 page 2, Bell vs. Gray on filing for a patent The first telephone didn't have speech through it

page 7, The Bell interests took full advantage of Gray and his feeling of discontentment. The court litigation was to far advanced for Gray to appeal and become re-involved with the case

page 8, Bell won the case for inventing telephone

Chapter 2 page 1, Gray's title to the invention of the harmonic telegraph which is a device for simultaneously several messages over one wire, and both filed patent applications in 1875 prevailed over Bell's. Bell and Gray both competed over the telautograph which is a device for transmitting handwriting by wire.  Gray was awarded the patents in 1888 and 1891. He exhibited it at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. 

page 2, 3, Gray lived in Western Reserve.  He carried on farm work after his father died, and then became an apprentice to a blacksmith.  He then turned to carpentry at the age of 22 through a self help program he was given the opportunity to go to Oberlin College (1857 1862) by working his way through school.

He invented a self adjusting telegraph relay. With the help and facilities of General Stager, Gray perfected the relay, and then developed the typewriter telegraph, the telegraph repeater, and annunciator for hotels, a printing telegraph and a number of lesser inventions.  In 1869 he formed a partnership with Enos M. Barton which later became the Western Electric Co. Gray didn't have much business sense which is why the company was reorganized.