Inventor Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy

Living place: Canada

Birthday: 2-5-1844

Global rank: #29318

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Who is Inventor Elijah McCoy?
Best known as the inventor of mechanical lubricants for steam engines, he also has 57 other US patents to his name. His name, McCoy, is a likely origin of the expression "The real McCoy." The state of Michigan receives his historical contributions in many ways including a vestige of history in his former home.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He initially worked as a railroad firefighter and tanker for the Michigan Central Railroad.

Family life info

He was first married to Ann Elizabeth Stewart who died four short years after they married. He later married Mary Eleanor Delaney.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Inventor Elijah McCoy?
He is acknowledged in the book Story 's Booker T. Washington of blacks as a leading black inventor.

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When was Inventor Elijah McCoy born?
Elijah McCoy was born in 2-5-1844, death year is , at the age of 180.
Where is Inventor Elijah McCoy's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Elijah McCoy was born in . is a Inventor, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Elijah McCoy's global rank is 29318 and whose rank is 12 in list of famous Inventor.
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Events in 1844 and 2-5

Birthday Elijah McCoy (2-5) in history

  • Day 2-5 year 1885: Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
  • Day 2-5 year 1939: Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
  • Day 2-5 year 1945: The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
  • Day 2-5 year 1955: Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
  • Day 2-5 year 1969: The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
  • Day 2-5 year 1994: Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.
  • Day 2-5 year 1997: The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
  • Day 2-5 year 2011: U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • Day 2-5 year 2012: A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.
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