Granville Woods
American inventor
Died when: 53 years 282 days (645 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the U.S.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 notable inventions was a device he called the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, a variation of induction telegraph which relied on ambient static electricity from existing telegraph lines to send messages between train stations and moving trains.
His work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the United States.
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