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Elijah McCoy: The Uncredited Father of Automation — And the Hidden Lineage to Modern Robotics

Elijah McCoy revolutionized the industrial age with a self-regulating invention that birthed automation — yet history nearly erased him. His 1872 lubrication system enabled the continuous, autonomous machines that underpin modern robotics. This InnerKwest investigation uncovers how McCoy’s genius powered the modern world while the nation overlooked the architect behind it.

The 333rd’s Silent Sacrifice: The Untold Story of Black Artillerymen in WWII and the Wereth 11 Massacre

By the InnerKwest Editorial Desk | October 2025 The Snow Fell Without Prejudice Belgium, December 1944.The wind cut across the Ardennes like a knife through memory, sharp and unrelenting. In the white silence, the men of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion worked their howitzer — a 155-millimeter beast that thundered against the German offensive rolling through the forest. Snowflakes landed …