On this day in tech history, Elisha Gray, an electrical engineer known for his telephone patent battle with Alexander Graham Bell and his other telegraph inventions, was born in Ohio. Gray attended ...

Although Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the official patent for the telephone in 1876, research conveys that there were countless others who attempted to file a caveat for their own version of the ...

Legal documents, photographs, articles, copies of correspondence, three folders of original Gray correspondence on the Gray-Bell controversy; most of the collection consists of copies of material, or ...

While the smartphone patent wars have captivated recent legal news cycles, a much more controversial telephone war occurred in the late 1870s and 1880s based on a strange and curious fact – Alexander ...

On May 22, 1886, The Washington Post published a shocking front-page scoop: Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Telegraph repeaters amplified electrical signals in a telegraph line. Telegraph messages traveled as a series of ...

“Soft skills” such as communication and teamwork are crucial proficiencies for a supply chain leader to hold. However, these skills are often overlooked amid today’s technology-driven industry, ...