The Real McCoy

By Andrew Moodie

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 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 marketer's proviso that McCoy's race be concealed.

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First produced

2006, Factory Theatre, Toroto

Publication year

2011

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Playwrights Canada Press

ISBN

9780887549885

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