Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He moved to South Africa at the age of two and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town. Tshilidzi Marwala (born 1971), South African scientist and inventor. Thebe Medupe (born 1973), South African astrophysicist and founding director of Astronomy Africa. Azwinndini Muronga, professor of physics and dean of ...
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.
Thomas Elkins (1818 – August 10, 1900) [1] was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharmacist, and inventor. He lived in Albany, New York, for most of his life, but travelled during his service as the medical examiner of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts infantries and visited Liberia. Notable inventions include patented ...
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; List of African scientists, inventors, and scholars
Pages in category "Lists of African scientists" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Benjamin Boardley (March 1830 – 1904) was an American engineer and inventor.. Benjamin's correct surname was Boardley, [1] [2] [3] but since 1859 when the African Repository published an article wrongly spelling Benjamin's surname as Bradley, authors have written about him with the incorrect surname.
Sarah Boone (née Sarah Marshall; c. 1832 – 1904) was an African-American inventor. On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563 [1] for her improvements to the ironing board. Boone's ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing the sleeves and bodies of women's garments.
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.