Biography Of Granville T. Woods

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It's amazing to think that a young boy with just a few years of formal schooling went on to become a creative genius and one of the world's most important inventors, receiving more than 50 patents for devices that dramatically changed, improved and modernized the railway system.
Granville T. Woods was bom in Columbus, Ohio, on April 23, 1856, to Tailer and Martha Woods. He left school at age 10 before becoming an apprentice in a machine shop. He loved trains and dedicated his genius to improving the rail system. Despite his limited education, Woods maintained a lifelong commitment to learning everything he could. He studied mechanics, machinery and electricity, oftentimes having white friends check books out of the library for him since Blacks

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