Please answer the following question: Facts: - birth name: granville tailer woods - birth date: 23 april 1856 - parents: tailer woods and martha j. brown - resting place: st. elmhurst , new york michael 's -lrb- episcopalian -rrb- cemetery , east - caption: illustration of granville t. woods - death date: 30 january 1910 - name: granville tailer woods - death place: new york city , new york , united states - birth place: columbus , ohio , united states - signature: gt woods signature1.jpg - death cause: cerebral hemorrhage - education: elementary then school until age of 10 ; self-taught since - nationality: american - occupation: inventor - residence: columbus & ndash ; 1892 -rrb- ; new york city , , new york -lrb- 1892 & ndash ; 1910 -rrb- ohio ; cincinnati , ohio -lrb- 1880 - home town: columbus , ohio - image: woodsgr.jpg - religion: african methodist episcopal Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of granville woods .
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granville tailer woods -lrb- april 23 , 1856 -- january 30 , 1910 -rrb- was an african-american inventor who held more than 50 patents .he is also the first american of african ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the civil war .self-taught , he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars .one of his notable inventions was the multiplex telegraph , a device that sent messages between train stations and moving trains .his work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the united states .