Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African-Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
William B. Purvis (12 August 1838 – 10 August 1914) [1] was an African-American inventor and businessman who received multiple patents in the late 19th-century. His inventions included improvements on paper bags, an updated fountain pen design, improvement to the hand stamp, and a close-conduit electric railway system.
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. [1] He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. [2]
His invention of the triode is almost simultaneously created by the American Lee de Forest. Max Dieckmann and Gustav Glage use the Braun tube for playback of 20-line black-and-white images. The first jukebox with records comes on the market.
It called her invention a "revolutionary idea" for the 1920s, "that conserved energy and paved the way for the central heating systems". [6] The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce established the Alice H. Parker Women Leaders in Innovation Awards to honor women who use their "talent, hard work and ‘outside-the-box’ thinking to create economic ...
Samuel Raymond Scottron (February 1841 – October 14, 1905) [1] [2] was a prominent African American inventor from Brooklyn, New York who began his career as a barber. He was born in Philadelphia in 1841 and received his engineering degree from Cooper Union in 1878.
Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1]
Thomas L. Jennings (c. 1791 – February 12, 1859) was an African-American inventor, tradesman, entrepreneur, and abolitionist in New York City, New York.He has the distinction of being the first African-American patent-holder in history; he was granted the patent in 1821 for his novel method of dry cleaning. [1]