Staff - Granville T. Woods Academy of Innovation He served as fireman and engineer on the Danville and Southern Railroad in Missouri, he worked in a Missouri rolling mill, and he also traveled east to work in a machine shop. The most prolific African-American inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he came up with numerous inventions including a steam-boiler furnace, Family Life. Rejected matches George Woods (abt.1875-) George Ferman Woods Sr (1906-1986) George Watts (1852-) W. WOODS. During this period, while traveling between Washington Court House and Dayton, Woods began to form ideas for what would later be credited as his most important invention: the "inductor telegraph." Father Thomas B Woods. In his day, the black newspapers frequently expressed their pride in his achievements, saying he was "the greatest of Negro inventors",[14] and sometimes even calling him "professor", although there is no evidence he ever received a college degree. Granville Woods - Wikipedia In 1874, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and worked in a rolling mill. Grant declared that all wires, many of which powered the above ground rail system, had to be removed and buried, emphasizing the need for an underground system. Back in Ohio in the summer of 1878, Woods was employed for eight months by the Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad Company to work at the pumping stations and the shifting of cars in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio. Englewood's Granville Woods Math and Science Academy. closed by city Have you taken a DNA test? By the time of his death, on January 30, 1910, in New York City, Woods had invented 15 appliances for electric railways. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. For the most part, these lists did not include their names but did include their sex, age, and color. In 1880, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and established his business as an electrical engineer and an inventor. Brown and his father's name was Cyrus Woods. He had little formal schooling; his education stopped early in his teens when he went to work as an apprentice. Brown siblings: Henrietta Woods, Lyates Woods, Rachel Woods Madison children: Jake Born Country: United States African Americans Inventors Height: 7'0" (213 cm ), 7'0" Males Died on: January 30, 1910 The average home rent in this residential area is $1,308. He had a brother named, Lyates. Granville Tailer Woods was born 23rd April 1856, to Cyrus Woods and Martha Brown. [31][35][23] Woods patented the invention in 1893[32] and in 1901, he sold it to General Electric.[22].