Grandville T. Woods Biography

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Grandville T. Woods was a African American men that was a excellent inventor. Woods also known as the “Black Edison” is known for his invention of the multiplex telegraph. He was born April 23, 1856 in Columbus Ohio and died January 30, 1910 in New York, New York (Biography.com). Wood had very little education growing up and started working as a teenager as a railroad engineer.
Woods was a very smart man with little schooling as a young boy Once he moved to Cincinnati he started to set up his own company developed and sold electrical devices that is around the time he patented a improved version of the steam boiler furnace he also patented the improved telephone transmitter which not only helped telephones but it also helped telegraphs communication. …show more content…

The multiplex telegraph also known as the blocking system was made to help stop things such as train accidents by speeding up communications between stations. When he patent the multiplex Thomas Edison took him to court stating that Woods stole his work and claimed it as his known.
One of woods best and important invention was the troller. A troller also known as the a trolley is a wheel connected to a pole used to collect electric currents from a wire above it. When he invented the trolley and patent it, it became a very important way of transportation for those who walked.
In conclusion, Granville T. Woods was born in the 1850s and died in the early 19 hundreds. He grew up with very little schooling and started working as an teen as a railroad engineer and as a engineer on a British ship. It was very hard for him to keep a job so he moved around a lot. He had close to about 60 patents on improving or his own inventions before he died. There were also a couple of lawsuits in which Thomas Edison claimed that Woods stole his invention to claim is as his own but his Edison never had proof it was

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