Autographed Letter Signed
Highland Park: 1898.
Scarce A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages, personal letterhead, Highland Park, Illinois, May 13th 1898, responding to the Royal Arch Museum, who had previously requested a sample of Gray's handwriting so that they could provide a profile analysis, in part: "I hereby send you a specimen of my pen-track. If from writing it is evidence of greatness - I am certainly a great man. I have discovered that while as a rule, great men are born writers...on the other hand all born writers are not great men. So I get no comfort out of the part that my pen-track are really hen-tracks..." Boldly signed and in excellent condition.
Elisha Gray 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. Some recent authors have argued that Gray should be considered the true inventor of the telephone because Alexander Graham Bell allegedly stole the idea of the liquid transmitter from him.[1] Gray had been using liquid transmitters in his telephone experiments for more than two years previously; however, Bell's patent was upheld in court.
Binding: Unbound
Language: English
Price: $1,350.00
Item #333382