Elijah McCoy

Elijah J. McCoy (2 May, 1844 – 10 October, 1929) was an inventor.

References

• {{Book reference | Author=Martin Rywell (chief compiler) and Charles H. Wesley, et al.| Title=Afro-American Encyclopedia., volume VI| Publisher=North Miami, FL: Educational Book Publishers | Year=1974 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Harry A. Ploski and Ernest Kaiser| Title=Afro USA: A Reference Work on the Black Experience.| Publisher=New York, NY: Bellwether Publishing Co., Distributed by Afro American Press| Year=1971 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=James C. Williams (Compiler)| Title=At Last Recognition in America: A Reference Handbook of Unknown Black Inventors and their Contribution to America., Volume I| Publisher=Chicago, IL: BCA Publishing Co.| Year=1978 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=| Title=Dictionary of American Biography| Publisher=New York : Scribner's| Year=1964 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, editors| Title=Dictionary of American Negro Biography| Publisher=New York : Norton| Year=1982 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Russell L. Adams. Illustrated by Eugene Winslow. Edited by David P. Ross, Jr.| Title=Great Negroes, Past and Present| Publisher=Chicago, Afro-Am Pub. Co.| Year=1969 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=| Title=Negro Almanac| Publisher=New York : Bellwether Pub. Co.| Year=| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Haber, Louis| Title=Black Pioneers of Science and Invention| Publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich| Year=1970| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Haskens, Jim| Title=Outward Dreams| Publisher=| Year=1991| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Hayden, Robert C.| Title=Eight Black American Inventors| Publisher=Addison-Wesley| Year=1972| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Klein, Aaron E.| Title=The Hidden Contributors| Publisher=Doubleday| Year=1971| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Towle, Wendy| Title=The Real McCoy| Publisher=Scholastic| Year=1993| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Carter Godwin Woodson| Title=Negro in Our History. 5th ed.| Publisher=Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc.| Year=1928| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Louis Haber| Title=The Role of the American Negro in the Fields of Science| Publisher=New York| Year=1966| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=| Title=Who Was Who in American History-Science And Technology : A Component of Who's Who in American History| Publisher=Chicago : Marquis Who's Who| Year=1976| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Booker T. Washington| Title=Story of the Negro, vol. 2.| Publisher=| Year=1909| ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=E. L. Ahrons| Title=Lubrication of Locomotives| Publisher= London: The Locomotive publishing co.| Year=1922| ID=}}