For some time he was an adviser
of the French telegraph administration, but resigned the post in 1873.
The following year he was elected a Member of the Academy of Sciences,
Paris. In 1879, he became editor of a new electrical journal
established at Paris under the title of 'La Lumiere Electrique,' and
held the position until his death, which happened at Paris after a few
days' illness on February 16, 1884. His devoted wife was recovering
from a long illness which had caused her affectionate husband much
anxiety, and probably affected his health. She did not long survive
him, but died on February 4, 1887, at Mentone in her fifty-fifth year.
Count du Moncel was an indefatigable worker, who, instead of abandoning
himself to idleness and pleasure like many of his order, believed it his
duty to be active and useful in his own day, as his ancestors had been
in the past.
VIII. ELISHA GRAY.
THIS distinguished American electrician was born at Barnesville in
Belmont county, Ohio, on August 2, 1835. His family were Quakers, and
in early life he was apprenticed to a carpenter, but showed a taste for
chemistry, and at the age of twenty-one he went to Oberlin College,
where he studied for five years. At the age of thirty he turned his
attention to electricity, and invented a relay which adapted itself to
the varying insulation of the telegraph line.
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