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71.) Black and gay ain't the same - Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off ...

Over one day ago | Tue May 20 0:00:00 PDT 2008

He later invented an electric lamp and a carbon filament for light bulbs [patented 1881, 1882]. Latimer was the only African-American member of Thomas Edison's engineering laboratory. Granville T. Woods [1856-1910] Woods was born in ...

From Light

72.) Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations...: Firefox ...

Over one day ago | Wed Nov 30 20:05:00 PST 2005

Ironically, Edison unsucessfully sued and later tried to buy out telegraph patents owned by a black inventor named Granville T. Woods. Incidentally, Edison's motion picture company and patents were challenged in the courts under Anti ...

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73.) Alliance GOP

Over one day ago | Sun Mar 11 1:39:00 PST 2007

Inventors such as Granville T. Woods, who was listed as ?America?s greatest electrician? and ?Edison?s successor? by white national newspapers, revolutionized railway travel through his numerous inventions (Henry Ford offered him the ...

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74.) Cultural Dacoity « 2ndlook - View From A Square Prism

Over one day ago | Tue Jul 8 0:00:00 PDT 2008

Consider a handful of the contributions that African-Americans have made to science and technology: we have forgotten that Granville Woods invented the steam boiler furnace, the telephone transmitter; Sarah Boone invented the ironing ...

From Anuraag Sanghi

75.) Black By Popular Demand | AlterNet

Over one day ago | Mon Feb 19 9:59:00 PST 2007

... Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, agronomist George Washington Carver, athlete Wilma Rudolph, educator W.E.B. DuBois, scientist Percy Lavon Julian, the dancing Nicholas Brothers, inventor Granville Woods, journalist Ida B. Wells, ...

From Sean Gonsalves

76.) black history month is halfway done. have you learned anything yet ...

Over one day ago | Tue Feb 14 10:45:00 PST 2006

granville woods invented the electrified third rail:a. trueb. falsec. a and b - electrified third rail systems already existed, but woods patented a significantly improved system that was instrumental in the development of the new york ...

From teratologist

77.) 23. black inventors

Over one day ago | Thu Feb 28 7:55:00 PST 2008

from the spark plug to the clothes drier, we have all used things invented by black people. now we can take down the dr. king posters and start praising the works of granville woods and jl love. yeah... that has a nice ring to it. love. ...

From Uncle Ruckus

78.) A Great Piece You Must Read!

Over one day ago | Mon Jan 14 18:28:00 PST 2008

Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Benjamin Banneker, Granville Woods. Then there's Dr. Carson, the preeminent brain surgeon in all of America. Where are these men?" Clarence replied: "Don't you understand yet ? ...

From The_West

79.) list of inventors

Over one day ago | Sat Dec 16 1:28:00 PST 2006

... frank whittle, (1907-1996) -- co-inventor of the jet engine; a. baldwin wood, (december 1879-1956), us inventor & engineer; granville woods, synchronous multiplex railway telegraph and other railroad-related technology ...