A story of historical interest:
We all know the story about the invention of the telephone by
A.G. Bell, but do you know how close he was to not getting the
patent for it?
Another person also had developed the 'telephone', but he arrived
at the U.S. Patent office just hours after Mr. Bell, and so was
denied consideration.
This other person, who lost out, was Elisha Gray (a name you may
not know), .... but read on.
Sometime later, Mr. Gray witnessed an accident. He went knocking
on doors to use a telephone to call a doctor - but was refused
by the telephone owners. (maybe because of the suspicious nature
of people).
Shaken by this experience, and drawing on his experience with his
own concept of a telephone, he got to work on additional circuitry
................for his version of a telephone
                that would be available to the
                public at any time - night or day..............

This went on to become The GRAY PAYSTATION COMPANY! and I bet NOW
you remember the name GRAY.