Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Playwrights Canada Press, 2011
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780887549885 (electronic bk.) MWT14331779, 0887549888 (electronic bk.) 14331779
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The story of inventor Elijah McCoy, whose name became a byword for quality, as in "the real McCoy." The play explains why we've never heard of him and reclaims a fascinating man's life from undeserved obscurity. Elijah McCoy, born in Canada to runaway American slaves, showed so much promise in school that he won a scholarship to study mechanical engineering at Edinburgh University. McCoy moved to the US, where no one believed a black man could be an engineer and so he was set to stoking boilers. Nevertheless, McCoy devised a solution to one of the greatest problems facing steam locomotion that was sold worldwide with the marketers proviso that McCoy's race be concealed
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