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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 575,396 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Granville Woods is the 345th most popular inventor (down from 302nd in 2019), the 7,761st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,089th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 44.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Granville Woods ranks 345 out of 354Before him are Dan Bricklin, Arthur Wynne, Patricia Bath, Yvonne Brill, Gary Fisher, and Kamil Tolon. After him are Kazimierz Prószyński, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Karl Jatho, Andrew Viterbi, Dean Kamen, and Harold Eugene Edgerton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Granville Woods ranks 109Before him are Edward Goodrich Acheson, Wovoka, Belisario Porras Barahona, Colin Campbell Cooper, Wilhelm Geiger, and Anton Aškerc. After him are Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Karolina Widerström, Paul Henri Lecomte, Keir Hardie, William Wallace Denslow, and Frank Harris. Among people deceased in 1910, Granville Woods ranks 84Before him are Heinrich Caro, Julia Ward Howe, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Octave Chanute, and Boyd Alexander. After him are Georges de la Falaise, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Hans Jæger, Hugo Erdmann, John La Farge, and Melville Fuller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Granville Woods ranks 7,761 out of 18,182Before him are Peter Jason (1944), Gailard Sartain (1946), John Billingsley (1960), Ted Schroeder (1921), Tadd Dameron (1917), and John Lawrence LeConte (1825). After him are Joe Roberts (1871), Melora Hardin (1967), Jason Sudeikis (1975), Seasick Steve (1951), Della Reese (1931), and Andra Day (1984).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Granville Woods ranks 93Before him are Frank Piasecki (1919), Amar Bose (1929), George Stibitz (1904), Dan Bricklin (1951), Patricia Bath (1942), and Gary Fisher (1950). After him are Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), Dean Kamen (1951), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Charles Darrow (1889), and George Beauchamp (1899).