Thomas Edison tried to take credit for a device created by a Black American inventor
Granville T. Woods was a pioneering inventor with nearly 60 patents to his name. Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images…
Ford, Edison, and Burroughs Were America’s Oddest Road Warriors
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Bettman/Getty Images In December 1912, the naturalist John Burroughs received an unexpected letter from…