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INVENTORS

Published on Feb 19, 2020

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Inventors ; famous African American Inventors to celebrate black history month!

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Garrett Morgan

  • With only an elementary school education, Garrett Morgan, born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877, began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. He went on to patent several inventions, including an improved sewing machine, a traffic signal light, a hair-straightening product, and a respiratory device that would later provide the blueprint for WWI gas masks. The inventor died on July 27, 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Frederick M. Jones – Inventor of The AIR CONDITIONER (AC)

  • Frederick McKinley Jones was born in 1893. Frederick McKinley Jones was a prolific early 20th century black inventor who helped to revolutionize both the cinema and refrigeration industries. Over his lifetime, he patented more than sixty inventions in divergent fields with forty of those patents in refrigeration. He died in 1961.
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Alexander Miles- Inventor of the Elevator

  • Alexander Miles was born in 1838 near Circleville, Ohio to Michael Miles and Mary Poppy. Alexander Miles is the 19th Century African American inventor known best for patenting his design for improving the automatically opening and closing elevator doors. The patent was issued on October 11, 1887 (U.S. Patent 371,207). He died in 1918.
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Osbourn Dorsey (Doorknob/Door Stopper)

  • Osbourn Dorsey was an African American man who invented the doorknob and doorstop in December of 1878. Very little was known about his life because he was born in a time where there wasn't too much recorded about him and it could've been because he was an African American. Historians still wonder if the man was born free or if he was a freed slave.
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George Washington Carver

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inventor of peanuts and sweet potatoes products

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George Washington Carver

  • George Washington Carver was an African American scientist and inventor. He was born on January 1, 1864 in Diamond, MO. He was best known for developing many products from peanuts. Some items were flour, paste, insulation, paper, wall board, wood stains, soap, shaving cream, and skin lotion. Some of them were antiseptics and laxatives. Another item he used to invent were products made from sweet potatoes. Those items included products like flour, vinegar, dyes, paint, and writing ink.
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John Standard

  • John Standard was an African-American inventor from Newark, New Jersey. He was born on June 15, 1868. He was the person that found a way to improve the design of refrigerators. Stanford’s refrigerator was made in 1891. It was non-electrical and un-powered, it also used a manually-filled ice chamber for chilling. A few years later, Standard continued to work on improving the items in the home kitchen. In 1889, he created the oil stove. It was a space-saving design that he suggested to be used for buffet-style meals on trains.
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THOMAS A. CARRINGTON

  • Thomas A Carrington’s birthday is unknown but estimated to be in the 1800s. He was known for inventing the Range Oven in 1876 and the Stethoscope in 1882.
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MADAME CJ WALKER

  • Sarah Breedlove, also known as Madame CJ Walker, was a American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist. She was born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, LA. She was famous for her beauty and hair products. She invented the world’s first hair straightening formula, or the hot comb.
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DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS

  • Daniel Hale Williams was born on January 18, 1858 in Hollisdayburg, Pennsylvania. He began working with Dr. Henry Palmer, a very good surgeon. Then went to Chicago Medical School. Eventually in 1891 he would open his first business called provident Hospital. In 1893, he completed his first ever open heart surgery. Then in 1931, on August 4, he passed away.
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PHILLIP EMEAGWALI
Phillip was born on August 23rd, 1954 in Akure Nigeria. While working on his PH.D, he was granted permission to use a connection machine. He wanted to see how much oil was in the reservoir, so he programmed and in 1989 he ran the program with 65,536 microprocessors the machine was able to perform 1.3 billion calculations per second. This helped many other scientists have a better understanding of computers.

  • Phillip was born on August 23rd, 1954 in Akure Nigeria. While working on his PH.D, he was granted permission to use a connection machine. He wanted to see how much oil was in the reservoir, so he programmed and in 1989 he ran the program with 65,536 microprocessors the machine was able to perform 1.3 billion calculations per second. This helped many other scientists have a better understanding of computers.
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THOMAS ELKINS

  • Thomas Elkins was an African American inventor that was an abolitionist apart of the vigilance committee. He’s most famous for making the chamber commode, a refrigerator, and a unique folding table that would be able to be used for eating, ironing, and quilting.
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BENJAMIN BANNEKER

  • Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Benjamin was mainly known as a writer, inventor, and naturalist. He was self taught the majority of his life. Banneker is most known for releasing six almanac books about farming. These books contained medicine treatments, tides, and astronautical information all recorded by himself. Unfortunately with declining sales, he had to give up his work. He later died in 1809 at the age of 74.
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Charles Drew

  • He created a way to process blood plasma and store blood plasma in blood banks. In WWII, Drew was asked to participate in a special medical effort known as Blood for Britain. Drew also worked for the red cross. He then died at the age of 45.
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Fredrick jones

  • Fredrick Jones was born in 1893, in Ohio. He invented the portable air cooling unit for cars and trucks for carrying food. He founded the company thermal control. He was in the American society of Refrigeration engineers. He then died of lung cancer on February 21, 1961.
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patricia bath

  • The first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology. She was the first female faculty member in the department of ophthalmology at UCLA's Jules Stein eye institute. In 1976, she co-founded the American Institute for prevention of blindness.
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joseph N. Jackson

  • He invented and patented the TV control remote. Joseph is a scientist, inventor, business man, and co-founder of a black history museum. Some other inventors he had created included the V-Chip and the programmable television receiver controllers. He has six patents in telecommunications and air craft security plus tracking.
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Elijah Mccoy

  • Elijah McCoy was born in Canada, to parents who had fled slavery. McCoy trained as an engineer in Scotland as a teenager. Unable to find an engineering position in the United States, he took a job working for a railroad and subsequently invented a lubrication device to make railroad operations more efficient
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July reed

  • Judy W. Reed, of Washington, D.C., was the third African American woman to receive a patent. Reed's invention, patent number 305,474, granted September 23, 1884, is for a dough kneader and a roller.
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Mary Jones De Leon

  • Mary Jones De Leon is an inventor that is the second known African-American woman to be granted a U.S. patent. . She received U.S. patent number 140.253 for her invention of a cooking apparatus in 1873.
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Jan Matzeliger

  • Jan Ernst Matzeliger was an inventor of Surinamese and Dutch descent. He is best known for patenting the shoe lasting machine, which made footwear more affordable.
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