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 was an important advancement in railroad safety,...

1856-1910 American engineer and inventor who received approximately sixty patents. Considered the most prolific nineteenth-century African American inventor, Woods innovated and improved transportation and communication technology. Most of...

Granville T. Woods (April 23, 1857- January 30, 1910 in Columbus, Ohio), was an African-American inventor. Woods dedicated his life to developing a variety of inventions relating to the railroad industry. To some he was known as the "Black Edison,"...

Byline: Dictionary of American Negro Biography, Outward Dreams, Negro Almanac and African American Breakthroughs: 500 Years of Black Firsts. Not much has been written about Granville T. Woods, who invented an improved egg incubator, improved the efficiency of streetcars and gave us...

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An elevator ride became a turning point 14 the life of inventor Granville Woods, a peer of visionaries Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Alexander Graham Bell.Elevators needed operators to control which floors to stop at. To call the elevator, passengers would ring a bell, and...