Miriam
E. Benjamin
Invention called a Gong and Signal Chair for
Hotels. Her chair, as she stated in her patent application
would "reduce the expenses of hotels by decreasing the
number of waiters and attendants.
Henry
Blair
Second Black inventor issued a patent by the
United States Patent Office. His invention was a seed
planter which enabled farmers to plant more corn faster,
with less labor.
Bessie
Blount
Tube feeding system for the disabled: her inventions
made the lives of soldiers disabled in World War II
more independent. Purchased by the French government.
George
Washington Carver: Cosmetic and Process of Producing
Agricultural chemist George Washington Carver
developed crop-rotation methods for conserving nutrients
in soil and discovered hundreds of new uses for crops
such as the peanut, which created new markets for farmers,
especially in the South.
Philip
Emeagwali
"Supercomputers that put men on the moon are
unheard of in Africa. But not to this Nigerian lad who
dropped out of school at age 14. Now a ripe 41-year-old,
Philip Emeagwali is turning the American supercomputer
and oil industries upside down, and the Americans can't
believe it!"
Frederick
M. Jones
Held more than 60 patents in a variety of fields,
but specialized in refrigeration. In 1935, he invented
the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul
trucks.
Marjorie
Stewart Joyner
First African American Woman Patent Holder (1896
- 1994) She invented a permanent wave machine that would
allow a hairdo to stay set for days. (Hair Perms)
Lewis
Howard Latimer
Invented and patented an incandescent light bulb
with a carbon filament in 1881. An engineer for the
Edison Company, Latimer invented the carbon filament,
thus making the light bulb practical.
Jan
Ernst Matzeliger
Developed an automatic method for lasting shoes,
"the most important invention for New England."
His invention was "the greatest forward step in
the shoe industry."
Elijah
McCoy
Was awarded over 57 patents including an oil-filled
container with an adjustable stopcock. Invention literally
revolutionized the railroad industry and continuously
running factory machinery.
Granville
Woods
Invented the induction telegraph system in 1887,
a method of informing an engineer of trains immediately
in front of and behind him, thus ensuring safer rail
travel. Woods was challenged in court by the Edison
and Phelps companies, but Woods eventually won the patent
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African-American
Inventions relating to the Peanut
Although it is well known that Dr. George
Washington Carver did not invent the peanut, it is not
as well known that many products that have come from
the peanut are due to the work of this great African-American
inventor and scientist.
African-American
Inventors and Inventions
The traffic signal, potato chips, the mailbox, the idea
of a blood bank, the gas mask, a folding bed, and much,
much more were invented by these African-Americans.
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