| Elisha Gray | Amos Barton |
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| Co-founder of Western Electric | Co-founder of Western Electric |
| Western Electric became AT&T Network Systems on 1/1/84 and Lucent Technologies on 10/1/96 | |
| Gray + Barton = "Graybar!" | |
| Elisa Gray irony 1: Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell-Labs) is totally owned by Lucent Technologies! Irony 2: Gray and Bell submitted their respective inventions to the US Patent Office on the same day! |
