BY WALTER OPINDE  Granville T. Woods was an African-American inventor and electrical engineer who held up to more than 50 patents. Woods is acknowledged by historians as the first American from the black community to be an electrical and mechanical engineer just a period after the Civil War. He was acquired most of his knowledge […]

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