Elisha grey was born in Barnesville, Ohio in 1835. He could manage to build a working model of Morse's Telegraph before he turned 10. When he went to college he was intrigued by electricity, and his teacher told him to continue his interest in electricity and telegraphs. He gained most of his smarts from his hands. He quoted "While studying natural philosophy, it was my custom to make and carry with me into the class such apparatus as could be readily constructed and would serve to illustrate the lesson. My habit of actually constructing everything which I saw or read of so far as my facil…
