Elijah J. McCoy(May 2 1843 - October 10, 1929) was a Afro-Canadian inventor. McCoy had wanted to work as an engineer but was repeatedly frustrated in this goal due to racial discrimination. After studying engineering in Edinburgh, Scotland, and returning home to Canada, he found work as a fireman and oiler at the Michigan Central Railroad. Working in a home-based machine shop in Ypsilanti, McCoy invented an automatic lubricator for oiling the steam engines of locomotives, … Wikipedia
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The uncritical and widespread acceptance of these myths led to McCoy's induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/mccoy/
