Cecintel Public Relations

05/29/2023

Celebrating with a "did you know?"

Memorial Day has a deep historical connection to the African American community in the United States.

02/07/2023

Cecintel PR is black history. Daily Black History Facts are American history facts.

January 30, 1910: Granville T. Woods died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Harlem Hospital in New York City, after having sold a number of his devices to such companies as Westinghouse, General Electric and American Engineering.

Until 1975, his resting place was an unmarked grave, but historian M.A. Harris helped to raise funds, and persuaded several of the corporations that used Woods' inventions to donate funds to purchase a headstone. It was erected at St. Michael's Cemetery in Elmhurst, Queens.

Granville Tailer Woods was an inventor who held more than 60 patents in the U.S. He was the 1st African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War.

Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. One of his notable inventions was a device he called the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, a variation of induction telegraph which relied on ambient static electricity from existing telegraph lines to send messages between train stations and moving trains.

His work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the United States.

INVENTIONS & PATENTS:
Granville T. Woods invented and patented Tunnel Construction for the electric railroad system, and was referred to by some as the "Black Edison".

Over the course of his lifetime Granville Woods obtained more than 60 patents for inventions including an automatic brake, an egg incubator, and for improvements to other technologies such as the safety circuit, and phonograph.

LEGACY:
🏅Baltimore City Community College established the Granville T. Woods scholarship in memory of the inventor.

🏅In 2004, the New York City Transit Authority organized an exhibition on Woods which utilized bus and train depots, and an issue of four million MetroCards commemorating the inventor's achievements in pioneering the third rail.

🏅In 2006, Woods was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

🏅In April 2008, the corner of Stillwell and Mermaid Avenues in Coney Island was named Granville T. Woods Way.

12/17/2022

11/21/2022

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/100-women-of-influence-in-2022/435872

Congrats to Sheena Allen listed as a “Leader who Influences Equity and Access!”

Entrepreneur's annual celebration of the women leaders influencing their industries, defining our culture, and reimagining our future.

08/01/2022

Word.

07/07/2022

In the country, we call this heat lightning.

06/07/2022

My year of 50 has been a slow drip of gratitude, new adventures and self-care. No quick fixes, good living is a marathon.

05/23/2022

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05/23/2022

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05/02/2022

Senior Celebration was a “smell the roses” opportunity. Trey and the other c/o 22 GMAC teens graduated out of Jack & Jill announcing their college plans on D-Day. Trey will be attending THEE Jackson State University College of Science, Engineering and Technology in the fall.

04/22/2022

Client Report: National Urban League’s State of Black America report (usually in DC) in Atlanta for the first time in its 45+ yrs history at my grad alma mater.