INVENTOR

Granville Woods

1856 - 1910

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Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Granville Woods has received more than 619,028 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Granville Woods is the 395th most popular inventor (down from 345th in 2019), the 9,443rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,746th in 2019) and the 112th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Granville Woods ranks 395 out of 426. Before him are Norman Joseph Woodland, Robin Li, Bill Atkinson, Gary Fisher, George Beauchamp, and Dean Kamen. After him are Bette Nesmith Graham, Yvonne Brill, Walter Frederick Morrison, John Whitehurst, Arnold Orville Beckman, and Peter Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Granville Woods ranks 121. Before him are Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Walther von Dyck, Karolina Widerström, Keir Hardie, Yuly Shokalsky, and Wovoka. After him are Colin Campbell Cooper, Frank Harris, Jens Bratlie, Kenyon Cox, William Wallace Denslow, and Tom Roberts. Among people deceased in 1910, Granville Woods ranks 104. Before him are Johan Vaaler, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Albert Nasse, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Adolf Schwarz, and Octave Chanute. After him are Antonín Slavíček, John La Farge, Worthington Whittredge, George Newnes, George Henry Williams, and Joe Gans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Granville Woods ranks 9,443 out of 20,380. Before him are Marc Aaronson (1950), John Berryman (1914), Michael Dunn (1934), Lance Larson (1940), Don Dokken (1953), and Ted Lange (1948). After him are Steven Bochco (1943), Grant Imahara (1970), Bruce Alberts (1938), Naomi Novik (1973), Debbie Meyer (1952), and Bette Nesmith Graham (1924).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Granville Woods ranks 112. Before him are Robert S. Langer (1948), Mark Rober (1980), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Gary Fisher (1950), George Beauchamp (1899), and Dean Kamen (1951). After him are Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), Walter Frederick Morrison (1920), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Peter Cooper (1791), Arthur Fry (1931), and Charles F. Kettering (1958).

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