QUICK FACTS NAME Granville T. Woods OCCUPATION Inventor BIRTH DATE April 23, 1856 DEATH DATE January 30, 1910 PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus, Ohio PLACE OF DEATH New York, New York AKA Granville Woods FULL NAME Granville T. Woods NICKNAME Black Edison SYNOPSIS EARLY LIFE EARLY INVENTING CAREER INDUCTION TELEGRAPH DEATH AND LEGACY CITE THIS PAGE Known as Black Edison, Granville Woods was an African-American inventor who made key contributions to the development of the telephone, street car and more. IN THESE GROUPS FAMOUS TAUREANS FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN COLUMBUS FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN UNITED STATES FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN ON APRIL 23 Show All Groups Woman Who Stopped for Ducks Faces Life in Prison Woman Who Stopped for Ducks Faces Life in Prison NEWSER Top 10 Shocking TV deaths we’re still not over Top 10 Shocking TV deaths we’re still not over THECELEBRITYCAFE.COM 2 Men And 1 Woman Had A Baby. Heres What It Looked Like 2 Men And 1 Woman Had A Baby. Heres What It Looked Like UPWORTHY Cameron Diaz Reveals Why She Never Had Kids Cameron Diaz Reveals Why She Never Had Kids LIFETIME MOMS POWERED BY PUBEXCHANGE Synopsis Granville T. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 23, 1856, to free African-Americans. He held various engineering and industrial jobs before establishing a company to develop electrical apparatus. Known as Black Edison, he registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph (over which he defeated a lawsuit by Thomas Edison). Woods died in 1910. Early Life Born in Columbis, Ohio, on April 23, 1856, to free African Americans, Granville T. Woods received little schooling as a young man and, in his early teens, took up a variety of jobs, including as a railroad engineer in a railroad machine shop, as an engineer on a British ship in a steel mill, and as a railroad worker. From 1876 to 1878, Woods lived in New York City, taking courses in engineering and electricity—a subject that he realized, early on, held the key to the future. Back in Ohio in the summer of 1878, Woods was employed for eight months by the Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad Company to work at the pumping stations and the shifting of cars in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio. He was then employed by the Dayton and Southeastern Railway Company as an engineer for 13 months. During this period, while traveling between Washington Court House and Dayton, Woods bega
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