On This Day in Telephone History January 21ST 1901 Professor Elisha Gray, the famous electrician, telephone and telautograph inventor and lately prominent in perfecting a system of submarine signaling, was picked up unconscious in Newtonville Square Massachusetts at 9:45 PM Sunday night. He died at 11:30 PM of heart failure at a house nearby. Professor Gray was 65 years old, and a resident of Chicago. He had for the last year and a half been living at 82 Huntington Avenue, Boston, working with Arthur J. Mundy in perfecting submarine signaling. He was returning through Newton after visiting Mr. Mundy for dinner.

On This Day In Telephone History January 21ST 1901

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On This Day in Telephone History January 21ST 1901 Professor Elisha Gray, the famous electrician, telephone and telautograph inventor and lately prominent in perfecting a system of submarine signaling, was picked up unconscious in Newtonville Square Massachusetts at 9:45 PM Sunday night. He died at 11:30 PM of heart failure at a house nearby. Professor Gray was 65 years old, and a resident of Chicago. He had for the last year and a half been living at 82 Huntington Avenue, Boston, working with Arthur J. Mundy in perfecting submarine signaling. He was returning through Newton after visiting Mr. Mundy for dinner.