Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room
Cars That Think
AUGUST 27, 2023
He made the most of it, soon coming up with the idea for a “ troller ,” a wheeled contact point at the end of an electric street car’s pantograph arm that improved the transfer of current from overhead wires. Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
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