Deontay Kyle

Thomas Edison's just a hater.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Um...

And if it's all right with y'all, we're not going to rush through this.

We're going to go through this.

Early life, born in Columbus, Ohio, April 23rd, 1856.

Woods received little schooling as a young man and in his early teens took up a variety of jobs, including a railroad engineer and a railroad machine shop as an engineer on a British ship in a steel mill and as a railroad worker.

From 1876 to 1878, Woods lived in New York City, taking courses in engineering and electricity, a subject that he realized early on held the key to the future.

Futurist.

Huh?

He seen it.

Huh.

Said, I'm finna make history, son.

Back in Ohio in the summer of 1878...

Woods was employed for eight months by the Springfield Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad Company to work at the pumping stations and the shifting of cars in the city of Washington Courthouse, Ohio.

He was then employed by the Dayton and Southeastern Railway Company as an engineer for 13 months.

During this period, while traveling between Washington Courthouse and Dayton, Woods began to form ideas for what would later be credited as his most important invention, the Inductor Telegraph.

He worked in the area until spring of 1880 and then moved to Cincinnati.

Yeah, son.