Booker T. Washington in Story of the Negro (1909) recognized him as having produced more patents than any other black inventor up to that time.
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Senator Debbie Stabenow offered an amendment to the Patent Reform Act of 2011 to name the first satellite office of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, which opened in Detroit, Michigan, on July 13, 2012, as the "Elijah J. McCoy United States Patent and Trademark Office".
Elijah | McCoy Tyner | Elijah Wood | Elijah Cummings | Elijah (oratorio) | Andy McCoy | Sylvester McCoy | Neal McCoy | Jason McCoy | John McCoy | Glenn McCoy | Colt McCoy | Van McCoy | Maimie McCoy | Leonard McCoy | Elijah Muhammad | Elijah Impey | Elijah Harper | Simon McCoy | Michael McCoy | Meredith McCoy | McCoy | Kid McCoy | Kevin M. McCoy | John McCoy (musician) | Frederick McCoy | Alfred W. McCoy | William John McCoy | William F. McCoy | W. F. McCoy |
Colchester was also the birthplace and hometown of railroad engineer and inventor Elijah McCoy, whose 45 patents and the invention of the locomotive lubrication cup led to the slogan "The real McCoy", denoting quality.