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2 kwi 2014 · Known as "Black Edison," Granville Woods was an African American inventor who made key contributions to the development of the telephone, streetcar and more.
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8 lis 2020 · Lewis Latimer (Sept. 4, 1848–Dec. 11, 1928) is considered one of the most important Black inventors for the number of inventions he produced and patents he secured, but also for the importance of his best-known discovery: a longer-lasting filament for the electric light.
Philipp Reis, 1861, constructed the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois.
Lewis Howard Latimer was an African American inventor who worked closely with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. He was best known for his contributions to the light bulb and the telephone.
6 lut 2024 · Granville Woods was a Black inventor who was born in Columbus, Ohio, on April 23, 1856. During his lifetime, he helped push the boundaries of communications technology and held more than 50 patents in the United States. Woods was born nine years before the end of the Civil War.
On this date in 1887, Granville T. Woods of Cincinnati, a Black inventor, patented the telephone. The patent # 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.
Granville Tailer Woods was the first African-American to become a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was also an inventor who held more than 60 patents. Born on April 23, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio to poor parents, his family could not initially afford to send him to college.
