In the 1870s, Elisha Gray developed plans for a telephone.

19世纪70年代，以利沙·格雷计划发明了电话。

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About this time Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both invented telephones.

也就是这个时候，艾尔沙·格雷与亚历山大·格雷汉·贝尔两人都发明了电话。

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Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray filed patent applications on the very same day in 1876.

亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔和伊莱莎·格雷在1876年的某个时间几乎同时递交了专利申请。

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His name was Elisha Gray.

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There is actually a direct line from Google Glasses back to the 1860s, when two young inventors, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, working separately and independently of each other both designed devices that could allow people to talk with each other electronically and in real time.

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