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Elijah McCoy was born May 2, 1844 in Colchester, Ontario. His parents, George and Emillia, were former slaves who escaped from Kentucky via the Underground Railroad.His first invention, a lubricating cup was used in steam cylinders of the trains and ...
http://www.aakulturezone.com/kidz/abc/emccoy.html
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- The American Inventor
Elijah McCoy 1843 or 18441929 was a mechanical engineer and inventor. McCoys highquality industrial inventions especially his steam engine lubricator were the basis for the expression the real McCoy, meaning the real, authentic, or highquality thing. ...
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/m/mccoy.shtml
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- A Elijah McCoy
Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada on May 2, 1844, the son of former slaves who had fled from Kentucky before the U.S. Civil War. Educated in Scotland as a mechanical engineer, Elijah McCoy returned to the United States and settled ...
http://www.ncalifblackengineers.org/Elijah%20McCoy.htm
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- A BlackInventor
Although the name Elijah McCoy may be unknown to most people, the enormity of his ingenuity and the quality of his inventions have created a level of distinction which bears his name.Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada on May 2, 1844 ...
http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/elijahmccoy.html
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- A Invention Dimension
From medical breakthroughs to technological advances to product and process improvements, invention is at the heart of a great society.The LemelsonMIT Program is dedicated to honoring the acclaimed and unsung heroes who have helped improve our lives ...
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/mccoy.html
| | - The Afrocentric Homeschoolers
Afrocentric Homeschoolers Association is a nonprofit, mutual aid organisation for homeschooling families and individual teens everywhere in the world engaging in Afrocentric, Blackoriented, proBlack, or Blackpositive education.Based in Ontario, Canad ...
http://geocities.com/blackhomeschool/colourmccoy.html
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- The Elijah McCoy
The inventor was born in 1843, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada. His parents were former slaves, George and Mildred McCoy nee Goins had fled Kentucky for Canada on the underground railroad.George McCoy enlisted in the British forces, in return, he was ...
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/a/Elijah_McCoy.htm
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The son of former slaves from Kentucky who had escaped via the Underground Railroad to Canada, at 15 years of age Elijah McCoy traveled to Scotland seeking the educational opportunities from which blacks were excluded in the Americas. He trained in m ...
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775694.html
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- The First Patent
In 1837 George and Emillia McCoy, who were slaves in Kentucky, escaped to Canada by using an Underground Railroad route that ran along the Indiana and Ohio border. George enlisted in the Army and served honorably in the 1837 Rebel War. The Canadian g ...
http://www.usi.edu/science/engineering/MISC/emccoy/emccoy.htm
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