Grandville T. Woods was a African American men that was a excellent inventor. Woods also known as the “Black Edison” is known for his invention of the multiplex telegraph. He was born April 23, 1856 in Columbus Ohio and died January 30, 1910 in New York, New York (Biography.com). Wood had very little education growing up and started working as a teenager as a railroad engineer.
Woods was a very smart man with little schooling as a young boy Once he moved to Cincinnati he started to set up his own company developed and sold electrical devices that is around the time he patented a improved version of the steam boiler furnace he also patented the improved telephone transmitter which not only helped telephones but it also helped telegraphs communication.
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The multiplex telegraph also known as the blocking system was made to help stop things such as train accidents by speeding up communications between stations. When he patent the multiplex Thomas Edison took him to court stating that Woods stole his work and claimed it as his known.
One of woods best and important invention was the troller. A troller also known as the a trolley is a wheel connected to a pole used to collect electric currents from a wire above it. When he invented the trolley and patent it, it became a very important way of transportation for those who walked.
In conclusion, Granville T. Woods was born in the 1850s and died in the early 19 hundreds. He grew up with very little schooling and started working as an teen as a railroad engineer and as a engineer on a British ship. It was very hard for him to keep a job so he moved around a lot. He had close to about 60 patents on improving or his own inventions before he died. There were also a couple of lawsuits in which Thomas Edison claimed that Woods stole his invention to claim is as his own but his Edison never had proof it was
Hill a market engineer was known best for being the builder of the Great Northern railroad. He was the onl y entrepreneur in the ninetiinth century who did not get any goverment funds to build his rail roads. His philosophy guided him to succeed and flourish through all the depression and fierce competion, receiving no tax payers dollars. He build the most efficient railroad lines, building the line straight as possible, taking in consideration the best elevations and useing the highest quality bessemer rails. Because he took no Federal aid he formed private contracts with Indian reservations in North Dakota and Montana. Doing this let him cut fuel costs alot and made rail repairs very low. He also Promoted exports, by giving land to immigrant along the line and showed them how to farm. He did experiments on what could be grown and how to produce it in the best way and the best quality. Doing this he was able to export wheat from the farms and also increase the population of the region. Then another thing that made him strive was he only expanded as profits allowed. He moved way slower than the other railroad companys, but when he was done his finances were well in order and sound. He was able to buy out St. Paul and Pacific Rail, also he invested 6 million dollars into 2 steamships and began exporting products from america to china, India, and Japan. this increased Us exports to japan from 7.7 million dollars to 51.7 million dollars in nine years. Also supplying
Radio waves were first discovered in 1887, but radio itself was initially invented by Italian Guglielmo Marconi in 1895 (1). His biggest mentioned success was in 1901, when he managed to broadcast the letter “S” across the Atlantic Ocean (1). However, he focused primarily on point-to-point transmissions, not large scale broadcasts from one point (F). As such, three American inventors - Lee De Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff - took credit for making radio as it is today a success (F). De Forest was born and raised in Alabama and he thought of everything in terms of patents and eventually held more than 300, but many claimed that he simply stole the inventions of others (2). In 1900, he patented a device to enhance weak signals and in 1902, he formed the De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company (1). In the same year. Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian, invented the “electrolytic detector”, which later became the spade detector that brought De Forest so much fame (F). In 1904, John Fleming invented the oscillation valve, which later became De Forest’s audion, and De Forest won the gold medal at the St. Louis World’s Fair for his “spade detector” (F). De Forest gained quite a bit of fame by broadcasting music live from the Eiffel Tower and from the Metropolitan Opera; however, many believed that this was a scam and that he had actually had the device broadcasting the signal only a few blocks away (F). In 1906, he envisioned bringing music and voices to all American households, but as it turns out Canadian inventor Fessenden had already broadcasted a Christmas greeting and music to the crew of a ship off the coast of Canada on Christmas Eve a year earlier (F). In 1912, Armstrong became prominent by inventing regeneration, wh...
Garrett Morgan was born in 1877 when it was a very hard time for black people to get jobs and money. Mr. Morgan was the first black man in Cleveland to own his own car. His father was half slave and half colonial. His race affected his career and life monumentally. Garrett morgan really had to push through racial adversity and hard times. He was only educated up to grade 6 and did not go to college. His first job was at a factory where he found out how much he was an innovator and an entrepreneur. He quickly learned how the machines worked and he started tinkering himself. He invented a traffic signal that was used by many people nationwide but he only ended up getting $40,000 profit from it. He did not get all of the money that he deserved for it. Garrett Morgan was most well known for making the very first gas mask. It was called the safety hood and covered your whole head. This invention did not sell well until he hired a white actor to pretend to be a salesman while Mr. Morgan was a native american chief. Mr. Morgan demonstrated how he could stay perfectly okay in a smoke
John Hammond was one of the greatest electrical and mechanical inventors of his time. The things he invented during his lifetime impacted history a great deal.
Lewis Latimer and John Deere were both very determined men living through a hardship. John Deere was a blacksmith who invented the steel plow, to help the people of Illinois cultivate the soil. Lewis Latimer served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, and in the end, improved the lightbulb more than Edison did. Their roads to success were similar, yet still different.
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.
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
A year later he opened his first industrial laboratory, where he would conduct several different experiments. His next major invention was the Quadruplex telegraph for Western Union, which was capable of transmitting two signals in two directions on a single wire. Jay Gould, the railroad industrialist, bought the rights of the telegraph and offered Edison a sum of $100000 dollars for his invention.
First a historical look at one of the most prolific and ingenious engineers of all time – who never stopped working and fulfilling his dreams. Elijah McCoy (1844-1929) was an American inventor born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, to parents who had escaped from slavery in Kentucky in 1837. McCoy was best known for his inventions of devices used to lubricate heavy machinery automatically. McCoy went to Edinburgh, Scotland, at age 15 and studied mechanical engineering for five years. When he came home he became a railroad fireman on the Michigan State Railroad. Back then steam locomotives had to stop at intervals so that the fireman could oil their pistons, levers, and connecting pins. About 1870, while living in the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan, McCoy began to experiment with automatic lubricators for steam engines.
...producing his invention of the steel plow. John’s meager start with the steel plow now has turned into a business producing tractors that drive themselves. His inventions changed the way of life for farmers of the past, present and future.
The great innovator Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, the seventh son of Samuel and Nancy Edison, (Biography.com). As a toddler, he got scarlet fever and an ear infection which resulted in the partial loss of his hearing, a handicap that he would live with for the rest of his life, (Kurtus, “Thomas Edison: Birth to Age 40”). In 1854, Edison was seven years old when he and his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan (Biography.com). He was in public school for 12 weeks until his teacher referred to him as “addled”, this made him furious and led to him leaving the school. Subsequently, his mother homeschooled him, (Powell, “The Education of Thomas Edison”). Under his mother’s nurture and care, contrasting his old teacher’s
“Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors of all time.” (Thomas Alva Edison Scientists, p.1, par. 3) He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children. Edison wasn’t a great student. He would easily get distracted and was slow at learning. He only attended school for three months. Then, his mother taught him at home. His mother was very amazed at how fascinated he was by experiments and moving objects. In the baggage car of the train called “Grand Trunk Railroad”, he sold his own newspaper and conducted experiments. But, due to an accidental fire, he had to close down his laboratory. Around the age of 12, Thomas Edison lost almost all of his hearing. No one figured out why, but some thought it was “probably an aftereffect of scarlet fever” (Thomas Alva Edison Scientists, p.2, par.1) or from the conductor boxing his ears when there was a fire in the baggage car.
Taylor Farnsworth who was the American inventor of the television during the first half of the century from 1927-1956
Thomas (Alva) Edison was one of America’s most important and famous inventors. Edison was born into a time and place where there wasn’t much technological advancements. His inventions helped a lot of things quickly change in the world. His inventions contributed to many inventions today such as the night light, movies, telephones, and records and CDs.
The history of engineering goes back into the 19th century when Alexander Volta (1745-1827) made a remarkable discover regarding the nature of electricity (Cosgrove 749). He discovered that electrical current could be controlled and could flow from one point to another. By the time the mid-19th century came about the rules for electricity were being established. During this time electromagnetic induction was discovered by Michael Faraday who lived from 1791 to 1867 (749). Also during this time Samuel Morris invented the telegraph in 1837 which relies on the principles of electromagnetic induction (749). Alexander Graham Bell, who lived from 1847 to 1922, created the telephone which also uses electricity in order to operate (749). Through the success of the telephone, Bell Telephone Company was established. In 1878, the light bulb was finally invented by Thomas Edison who lived from 1847 to 1931 (749). Off the principles of Faraday’s electric motor from 1821, Nicholas Tesla invented a more efficient and powerful electric motor in 1888 (749). To make these inventions be more significant, effort was expended to make better motors and transformers and to enhance the power needed to make them function. Through these inventions during the middle 19th century, it led to the capability of lighting homes and cities through the use of electricity, and it also led to the creation of the telephone communication system (750).