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ELISHA (a Hebrew name meaning " God is deliverance "), in the Bible, the disciple and successor of Elijah, was the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah in the valley of the Jordan. He was symbolically elected to the prophetic office by Elijah some time during the re ...

ELLIS (originally SHARPE), ALEXANDER JOHN (1814-1890), English philologist, mathematician, musician and writer on phonetics, was born at Hoxton on the i.|i li of June 1814. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degre

... nder Graham Bell in 1876 invented the speaking telephone (q.v.), and Edison and Elisha Gray in the United States followed almost immediately with other telephonic inventions for electrically transmitting speech. About the same time D. E. Hughes in England inve ...

... the wood of the cross or in the day mixt of dust and the Lord's spittle, or in Elisha's relics which raised a corpse to life, or in the burning bush. All these, be says, " were parcels of matter destitute of life and feeling, but through miracles they became ...

... s electric resistance. Experiments very similar to these of Edison were made by Elisha Gray of Boston, Mass., and described by him in papers Eiisha communicated to the American Electrical Society in dray's 1875 and 1878. In these experiments the electric meats ...

... od (1846James Pinckney Henderson, Democrat George T. Wood, P. Hansborough Bell, Elisha M. Pease, Hardin R. Runnels, Sam Houston, Edward Clark (lieutenant-governor, act ng) Dem. Francis R. Lubbock, Democrat Pendleton Murray, ,, Andrew I. Hamilton, provisional J ...