Elisha Gray

“To the popular mind, the telephone and the telegraph are one and the same, and a telephone is a telegraph with a voice.”

“While I do not claim to be the first to discover the art of transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically... I do claim to be the first to have invented and used apparatus for that purpose.”

“The history of the telephone is a history of litigation.”

“Nature's laws are the invisible government of the world.”

“It is a well-known fact that a wire, while transmitting a continuous current of electricity, may be thrown into vibration, and that the vibrations of the wire will produce musical tones.”

“The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that of the correlation of forces, is mainly due to the philosopher and the pure scientist.”