This is one of many conflicts between Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. Bell and Gray famously fought over the telephone patent, one filing just hours befo

This is one of many conflicts between Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. Bell and Gray famously fought over the telephone patent, one filing just hours before the other. What is also not as widely known is Bell also patented the autograph telegraph fax-like device. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray : " In April, 1875, ten months before the alleged theft of Gray's design, the U.S. Patent Office granted U.S. Patent 161,739 to Bell for a primitive fax machine, which he called the "autograph telegraph." The patent drawing includes liquid transmitters. " I'm sure there was no love lost between these two.