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The Real McCoy - Elijah McCoy
A certified engineer gets hired to shovel coal. He builds a small metal cup anyway - and changes the railroad industry forever. This week, Mr. Black History traces Elijah McCoy from a free-born childhood in Ontario, to an engineering degree in Edinburgh, to a Michigan boiler room where America refused to call him an engineer. His 1872 patent for a self-oiling lubricator sped up trains, ships, and factories across the globe. His name became the phrase the whole English-speaking world uses for the real thing. The man stayed invisible. The phrase did not.
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