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   Payphone

   A pay phone or payphone is a public telephone, with payment by inserting money (usually coins) or a credit card (a special telephone card or a multi-purpose card) or debit card before a call is made. ... In 1889, the first public coin telephone was invented by William Gray and installed at a bank in Hartford, Connecticut.
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   Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy

   The Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell controversy concerns the question of whether Bell or Gray invented the telephone independently and, if not, whether Bell stole the invention from Gray. ... Gray's lawyer William D. Baldwin had been told that Bell's application had been notarized on January 20, 1876.
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   Elisha Gray

   Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone. ... In 1887 Gray invented the "telautograph", a device that could remotely transmit handwriting through telegraph systems.
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   History of the telephone

   The first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway in Britain. ... The Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell controversy considers the question of whether Bell and Gray invented the telephone independently and, if not, whether Bell stole the invention from Gray.
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   Invention of the telephone

   Daniel Drawbaugh, a bearded rustic tinkerer from Pennsylvania, claimed to have invented a telephone using a teacup as transmitter as early as 1867, and to have applied for a patent about 1880, but his case was dismissed in the 1880-88 legal challenge to Bell (see The Telephone Cases), and also in 1896. ... Elisha Gray
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   Highland Park, Illinois

   Highland Park is where Elisha Gray invented and first demonstrated the telephone in 1874; his Hazel Avenue house still stands. ... William Goldman, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, author of The Princess Bride
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   The Big Book Of

   Published in 1997 and written by Paul Kirchner, the Big Book of Losers proves that the misfortunes of others (such as Elisha Gray, who invented a telephone prototype before Alexander Graham Bell) really can be funny. ... Then there are proponents of the banal, like poet Rod McKuen and real estate developer William Levitt.
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   Mabel Gardiner Hubbard

   The U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 made Bell's newly invented telephone a featured headline worldwide. ... ↑ Gray, Charlotte.
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   The Big Book of

   Published in 1997 and written by Paul Kirchner, the Big Book of Losers proves that the misfortunes of others (such as Elisha Gray, who invented a telephone prototype before Alexander Graham Bell) really can be funny. ... Then there are proponents of the banal, like poet Rod McKuen and real estate developer William Levitt.
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    Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. ... It was invented in Brantford at Tutela Heights in the summer of 1874."

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