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William Gray (1850 – January 24, 1903) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for inventing the coin-operated payphone and an improved chest protector for baseball catchers . He founded the highly successful Gray Telephone Pay Station Company, which became one of the largest employers in the Hartford, Connecticut , area.
William John Gray, 13th Lord Gray (1754–1807), Scottish nobleman and soldier W. H. Gray (William Henry Gray, 1808–1896), pioneer colonist of South Australia William Gray (inventor) (1850–1903), American inventor and entrepreneur, inventor of the payphone and the baseball chest protector
It was a "post-pay" machine; coins were inserted at the end of a conversation. The coin mechanism was invented by William Gray; he was issued a series of patents for his devices, beginning with U.S. patent 454,470 issued 23 June 1891 for a
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.
Evenson argues that it was not Wilber who leaked Gray's ideas to Bell's attorney Anthony Pollok after Gray's caveat was filed with the patent office, but somebody in the office of Gray's attorney William D. Baldwin, perhaps Baldwin himself, who leaked the variable resistance idea and the water transmitter idea to Bell's attorney before Gray's ...
In truth, William Post was an accidental inventor, and he graciously insisted throughout his life that his great creation was a team effort. And his start in the snack business came as a truck washer.
A tree protected the remains of a World War II fighter pilot, whose plane crashed in Germany in 1945, for more than 70 years.
William Garity; John Gault; Jacob Gershon-Cohen; King C. Gillette; William Gillette; Tyler Glaiel; Robert Goldman (inventor) Sylvan Goldman; Alexander Gorlov; George B. Grant; William Gray (inventor) Lillian Greneker; Napoleon Guerin