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George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of an early composite golf tee made from wood and natural rubber (specifically, gutta-percha ) tubing.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
Inventor Second black inventor to issue a patent; invented seed planter and cotton planter. [32] [33] Boahen, Kwabena: 1964– Bioengineer: Silicon retina able to process images in the same manner as a living retina [34] [35] Boone, Sarah: 1832–1905 Inventor Ironing board allowing sleeves of women's garments to be ironed more easily [36] [37 ...
Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader.His most notable inventions were a type of three-way traffic light, [1] and a protective 'smoke hood' [2] notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue.
Sarah Frances Grant Blaisdell George Blaisdell (June 5, 1895 – October 4, 1978) was an American inventor known for creating the Zippo lighter , based on an Austrian lighter in 1933. In the 1940s, George bought buildings that could create a factory that could make the Zippo lighter.
2. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Grant names this Frank Capra-directed surreal comedy as one of her favorites.Based on the long-running play (and a bit of a precursor to The Munsters and The Addams ...
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
The feature was tested as "YouTube reels" earlier that year, and is only accessible through the native mobile apps and not implemented on the websites. [206] This feature was disabled on June 26, 2023, citing access being limited, and poor promotion. Existing stories would remain for 7 days after uploading was disabled. [207] [208]