# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/granville-tailer-woods
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:40:30.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/granville-tailer-woods"
name: "Granville Tailer Woods"
slug: "granville-tailer-woods"
description: "Granville Tailer Woods 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. One of his inventions is the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, a variation of the induction telegraph that allowed trains to send and receive messages while moving."
tagline: "American inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Woodsgr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1856-04-23"
deathDate: "1910-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.61058933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump