Elijah McCoy was the son of ex-slaves. They fled to Canada where Elijah was born. He studied mechanical engineering and from an early age took things apart to see how they worked. His first major invention was an oiling can to speed up maintenance of trains. Throughout his life, he had 57 patents on his inventions.
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