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  2. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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    African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]

  3. Alice H. Parker - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the National Society of Black Physicists honored Parker as an "African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas." It called her invention a "revolutionary idea" for the 1920s, "that conserved energy and paved the way for the central heating systems". [4]

  4. Category:African-American inventors - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American inventors. ... Pages in category "African-American inventors" The following 97 pages are in this category ...

  5. Frederick McKinley Jones - Wikipedia

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    In 1944, Jones became the first African-American to become a member of the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers. [7] 1953 Merit Award, Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary, "for outstanding achievements which serve as an inspiration to youth." [22] In 1977, he was posthumously inducted into the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame. [11]

  6. Granville Woods - Wikipedia

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    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] Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.

  7. Sarah E. Goode - Wikipedia

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    One of the first African-American women to receive a United States patent Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. She was one of the first known African American women to receive a United States patent , which she received in 1885 for her cabinet bed.

  8. Thomas L. Jennings - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Elijah McCoy - Wikipedia

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    Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1844 [A] – October 10, 1929) was a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines. Born free on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie to parents who fled enslavement in Kentucky , he traveled to the United States as a young child when his family returned in 1847 ...