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Granville Woods

1856 - 1910

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Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 60 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Granville Woods is the 397th most popular inventor (down from 395th in 2019), the 11,153rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,442nd in 2019) and the 114th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Granville Woods ranks 397 out of 426. Before him are Dean Kamen, Bette Nesmith Graham, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Lewis Howard Latimer, Jerry Lawson, and John F. Seitz. After him are Stanford R. Ovshinsky, John Whitehurst, Roger C. Field, Joy Mangano, Charles Ammi Cutter, and Herbert E. Ives.

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Among people born in 1856, Granville Woods ranks 127. Before him are Wovoka, Walther von Dyck, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Jens Bratlie, Colin Campbell Cooper, and Louis-Gustave Binger. After him are Tom Roberts, Frank Harris, Toru Dutt, and John Redmond. Among people deceased in 1910, Granville Woods ranks 107. Before him are Johan Vaaler, Octave Chanute, Julius Kühn, Antonín Slavíček, Emīls Dārziņš, and Emily Blackwell. After him are George Henry Williams, George Newnes, Worthington Whittredge, John G. Carlisle, and Joe Gans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Granville Woods ranks 11,155 out of 20,380. Before him are Red Skelton (1913), Mary Engle Pennington (1872), Harlan F. Stone (1872), Lena Raine (1984), Erwin Hahn (1921), and Les Claypool (1963). After him are Abraham Baldwin (1754), Virginia Davis (1918), Brooke Smith (1967), Kevin Michael Richardson (1964), David Dixon Porter (1813), and Mae Clarke (1910).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Granville Woods ranks 114. Before him are Dean Kamen (1951), Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Jerry Lawson (1940), and John F. Seitz (1892). After him are Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922), Joy Mangano (1956), Charles Ammi Cutter (1837), Herbert E. Ives (1882), Clarence Birdseye (1886), and Marc Andreessen (1971).

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