Granville T. Woods
1856-1910
American engineer and inventor who received approximately sixty patents. Considered the most prolific nineteenth-century African American inventor, Woods innovated and imp...
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A multi-talented inventor, Granville Woods, dubbed the "black Edison," created the railroad telegraph, a device which transmitted messages between moving train via static electricity. This invention w...
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Granville T. Woods
Granville T. Woods