1. Elijah McCoy was born in 1843 in Ontario Canada. He was the child of freed slaves from Kentucky and was always fascinated with all things mechanical. His parents sent him to Edinburgh Scotland to serve an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. The only job he could get when he returned home was a fireman (the person who put wood in the furnace.) he invented a lubricating device for steam engines.
2. That he went to school until he was 15 and then went off to become an engineer.
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