Granville T Woods

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Granville T Woods was a successful American inventor, he dedicated his life’s work to developing a variety of inventions many related to the railroad industry. Woods invented 15 appliances for electric railways and received 60 patents, many of them related to the railroad industry. These included a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and a multiplex telegraph over which he defeated a lawsuit by Thomas Edison.

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