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Tue, 11.21.1893

A Black Man Patents an Electric Railway Conduit

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On this date 1893, Granville T. Woods of Cincinnati, a Black inventor, patented the electric railway conduit.  The patent is #509065

For a while he manufactured and sold his inventions through the Woods Electric Company, but he later sold his patent rights to the General Electric Company.

Reference:

USPO.gov

Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators
By James Michael Brodie
Copyright 1993, by Bill Adler Books, Inc.
William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York
ISBN 0-688-11536-5

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