Granville Woods
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title:
Granville Woods
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Granville Tailer Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. One of his inventions is the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, a variation of the induction telegraph that relied on ambient static electricity from existing telegraph lines to send messages between train stations and moving trains
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American inventor (1856–1910)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Woods
date created:
2003-12-09T22:18:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T02:42:27Z
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