It revolutionized the steam engine and locomotive travel. It represented the most profitable of his more than 58 patents, which included a folding ironing board and an automatic sprinkler. Mccoy patented the lubricating cup in 1872. Many of his inventions and innovations are incorporated into the fundamental design and structure of today’s automobile engines and machines. He built many remarkable machines and inventions. In that humble position, he continued in his private time and with his own money, his true scientific calling which was the design and invention of numerous mechanical devices. He instead had to take a job as a railroad fireman. He was denied an engineering employment-again because he was of African descent. Mccoy trained in mechanical engineering in Scotland and then moved to the United States. At 15 years of age he traveled to Scotland seeking the educational opportunities from which Afro-Americans were excluded in the Americas, including then Canada. So, Elijah Mccoy decided to travel out of Canada to other climes where there appeared to be more opportunities. He was blocked from any meaning ful educational opportunity as there were national and regional policies in place to discourage African Canadians and African Americans in general from seeking any higher educational attainement. He grew up a talented youth in Canada but yet faced racists discriminations which threatened to block the development of his mind. His parents escaped from slavery in Kentucky and travelled via “the Underground Railroad” to Canada. The frequent stops prevented railroads from being profitable until Elijah McCoy developed the “lubricating cup” for steam engines, which kept locomotives constantly lubricated, preventing frequent stops and overheating.Įlijah McCoy the Great Afro-Canadian ScientistĮlijah McCoy was an Afro-Canadian scientist and inventor. They had the potential to remake the global economy and society but it was hampered by the inherent problem with the steam engine designs of those days.Īt that time, locomotives needed to be shut down periodically to be lubricated to avoid overheating. The steam engine eventually became the basis of the locomotive engine which ran on rail roads. Watt’s invention was the first to employ a separate device, called a condenser, which performed this function Steam engines had previously depended on atmospheric pressure to push a piston (a sliding piece of metal moved by pressure) into a cylinder (a hollow tube) and create a vacuum by the cooling steam. Not long thereafter, the Scottish inventor James Watt (1736–1819) substantially improved on Newcomen’s model and patented (received exclusive rights to make, use, and sell) his own steam engine in 1769. It was significantly improved in 1711 by Englishman Thomas Newcomen (1663–1729), who created a machine that used steam to pump water. Through the ages, the steam engine was developed by various un-named al-chemists and scientists. The Moors in Europe famously constructed machines which appeared close to steam engines if the descriptions of the contemporaries of those periods were to be accepted.įrom England, Scotland to Afro-America and Canada! The Carthaginians, the Romans, and the Moors thereafter. It must be noted at all times that Heron, came across the secret of steam engine in Kemetian books stored in the libraries of Alexandria, managed by ancient Kemetian priest-hood which had continued with lesser influence under the Ptolemaic hegemonyĭigging through the scientific trove of the ancient Kemetians, Heron developed several devices that were operated by water, steam, or compressed air, including a fountain, a fire engine, and the steam engine.ĭifferent dynasties and kingdoms thereafter sought to exploit the power of the steam engines to various ends. Heron, like all the other so-called Greek discoverers (and similar later day “European” discoverers like Colombus) only “discovered” what was already there before him. an African/Hellene named Heron of Alexandria stumbled across the secrets of steam machines and several other devices recorded in those sacred scrolls of the ancient and magical Kemetians. So it happened that in the first century A.D. This fact was acknowledged by the whole earth which sojourned on pilgrimage to the blessed lands of Egypt, Ethiopia and Punt to receive celestial knowledge and beneficience. The very magic of the goddess and the god were inscribed in their own hand writings on sacred scrolls, which revealed the secrets of the ancient foundation of science, metaphysics, astronomy, technology and mathematics. In the library of Alexandria, where the ancient knowledge of the Black Eygptians had been gathered, preserved and relentlessly researched by the Ptolemic/Hellenic Empire of Asia Minor.
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