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NAME: Granville T. Woods BORN: April 23, 1856 COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS: born...Columbus, Ohio (Franklin County) eventually settled in Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County) OCCUPATION: inventor DIED:January 30, 1910, New York, New York Return to Main Page Return to Name index Return to Career Index Return to County Index |
FAST FACTS:
Woods patented over 60 different inventions. A significant number were eventually sold to companies like General Electric, Westinghouse, and Bell Telephone.
Probably his most famous invention was a system for proximity warning system for trains. It represented a major safety breakthough in rail transportation.
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