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1855–1905. Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [81][82][83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee.
Abraham Speck, Diana Tull [citation needed] George Speck (also known as George Crum; [1] July 15, 1824 – July 22, 1914) was an American chef. He was known for his role in popularizing potato chips in Upstate New York and was later mythologized as their creator. Speck was born in Saratoga County, New York. He was a member of the Mohawk people.
George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver (c. 1864 [1] – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. [2] He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver ...
Occupation. Engineer. Norbert Rillieux (March 17, 1806 – October 8, 1894) was a Louisiana Creole inventor who was widely considered one of the earliest chemical engineers and noted for his pioneering invention of the multiple-effect evaporator. This invention was an important development in the growth of the sugar industry.
Augustus Jackson (April 16, 1808 – January 11, 1852), [1] was an African American businessperson, chef, ice cream maker, and confectioner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] He is credited as inventing a modern method of manufacturing ice cream and for new flavor development. [3] He is nicknamed “the Father of Ice Cream”, despite not ...
African Americans. The role of African Americans in the agricultural history of the United States includes roles as the main work force when they were enslaved on cotton and tobacco plantations in the Antebellum South. After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863-1865 most stayed in farming as very poor sharecroppers, who rarely owned land.
Fields. Food preservation. Lloyd Augustus Hall (June 20, 1894 – January 2, 1971 [1]) was an American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in other countries.
Sarah E. Goode was the fourth African American woman known to have received a US patent. The first and second were Martha Jones of Amelia County, Virginia, for her 1868 corn-husker upgrade [23] and Mary Jones De Leon of Baltimore, Maryland, for her 1873 cooking apparatus. [24][25] Judy W. Reed’s dough roller was the third, patented in 1884 ...