A brief biography of Elijah McCoy and a description of one of his inventions that made factory machinery run smoothly.

Concepts

inventions, inventors

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Additional Tags

automatic oil can, factory machines, locomotives, moving parts, african-american inventors, elijah mccoy, african american inventors

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