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Inventions

Multiplex Telegraph System

Wood's Inventing Career

Death and Legacy

Telephone Transmitter

While living in Cincinnati, Woods then opened up his own company that manufactures and sells electrical equipment. In 1889, he sealed his first patent for an enhanced steam boiler furnace. His upcoming patents were focused on parts for electrical devices. This includes his second invention, the telephone transmitter. The patent for this device, which included the telephone transmitter and the multiplex telegraph together, was bought by Alexander Graham Bell.

One of his most remembrance inventions was the “troller." A ribbed metal wheel that allowed cars (aka"trolleys") to collect electric power from wires above the car.

By the time he passed away, on January 30, 1910, Granville T. Woods had designed 15 devices for electrical railways. He had also invented nearly 60 patents, many of which were entrusted to the big box manufacturers of eletrical equipment that are a part of today's modern society. Granville T. Woods has contributed a big step for technology today. His legacy will definitely be remembered for years to come.

Early Life

Granville T. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 23, 1856. Woods received little education as a child, but he took place in a mix of jobs. One of his jobs that he worked was as a railroad engineer in a machine shop. In 1876, Woods moved to New York City and started taking classes in engineering and electricity. He finished in the year of 1878. In Ohio, the summer of that same year, Woods was employed by the Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad Company to work at the pumping stations. After of only eight months of working there, He was then hired by the Dayton and Southeastern Railway Company as an engineer. This time, He worked there for only 13 months. During this period, Woods began to think of ideas for what would soon be named as his "most important invention", the “multiplex telegraph." He worked in this belt until the spring of 1880, and then soon moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Granville T. Woods, (also known as Black Edison) was a black inventor who made important contributions to technology today.

Woods made key contributions to the development of the telephone, cars, and more.

Woods has sealed nearly 60 patents through out the years of 1887 to 1905.

In 1878, Woods began to form ideas that would soon turn in to his best inventions.

Granville T. Woods has lived in Ohio for most of his life but spent a good bit of time in New York City taking classes in engineering and electricity.

Trolley Blue Print

Granville T. Woods is a extraordinary scientist and inventor. He worked an assorted amount of engineering and industrial jobs before forming a company that produces electrical equipment. He was well known as "Black Edison” for he held an inventory of close to 60 patents in his life. Some of his most known for inventions included the telephone transmitter, the trolley, and the multiplex telegraph.

Granville T. Woods

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