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Alice H. Parker (1895 – 1920) [1] was an African-American inventor who was active in the early 1900s. She is known for her patent for a gas furnace. She is known for her patent for a gas furnace. Early life
Alice Parker conducting in 2019. Parker served on the Board of Directors of Chorus America and was their first Director Laureate. She received the Distinguished Composer of the Year award from the American Guild of Organists in 2000, the 2014 Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association, the Harvard Glee Club Foundation Medal in 2015, six honorary doctorates, and the Smith ...
In 1919, Alice Parker invented a system of gas-powered central heating. While her particular design was never built, it was the first time an inventor had conceived of using natural gas to heat a personal home, which inspired the future central heating systems. Automatic Rotimaker
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... He was executed by hanging on September 22, 1692, along with Alice Parker ... Biography. Wardwell was born on May 16, 1643 ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896. This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or ...