Deontay Kyle
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The device allowed men to communicate by voice over telegraph wires, ultimately helping to speed up important communications and subsequently preventing crucial errors such as train accidents.
Woods defeated Edison's lawsuit that challenged his patent and turned down Edison's offer to make him a partner.
Therefore, oh, no, thereafter, Woods was often known as Black Edison.
But he was actually just Granville T. Woods.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Y'all always try to put a white man next to a nigga accomplishments.
But he did all this off the muscle.
On his own.
All this off the, you know what I'm saying, medulla oblongata, son.
Step your prefrontal cortex up, son.
Okay.
After receiving the patent for the Multiplace Telegraph, Woods reorganized his Cincinnati company as the Woods Electric Company in 1890.
He moved his own research operations to New York City, where he was joined by a brother, Lytas Woods.
I don't.
Laedas Woods?
L-Y-A-T-E-S.
Laedas?
Yeah.
Laedas Woods?
Niggas, bruh.