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  Granville T. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Granville T Woods obtained a job as a firefighter on the Danville and Southern railroad in Missouri.Then he became an engineer.
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  He worked for the Springfield, Jackson and Pomery Railroad Company for eight months.
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  He patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, which allowed communications between train stations from moving trains.
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  Granville T Woods developed a system for overhead electric conducting lines for railroads.
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  Woods filed his first patent for an improved steam-boiler furnace.
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  A complete Electric Railway System was operated at Coney Island, NY.
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  He was 56
