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National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Granville Tailer Woods
1856-04-23 – 1910-01-30
Life & Legacy
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) 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.
Granville T. Woods invented and patented Tunnel Construction for the electric railroad system, electrical rollercoasters.
Occupation & Career
inventor, engineer
Faith & Community
Methodism
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National Inventors Hall of Fame
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National Inventors Hall of Fame
Church
Methodism
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Methodism
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