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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, Bostondentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee. [84] Graves, Joseph L.
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]
A. José de Acosta (1540–1600), one of the first naturalists and anthropologists of the Americas. [ 1 ] Andrés Alcázar (1490-1585), neurosurgeon and anatomist, designed new tools for surgical treatments. [ 2 ] José Antonio de Artigas Sanz (b. 1887), created luminescence with noble gases.
Signature. 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.
Eye glasses, first invented by Ibn Firnas in the 9th century. Inheritance of traits first proposed by Abu Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD) more than 800 years before Austrian monk, Mendel. Al-Zahrawi was first to record and suggest that hemophilia was an inherited disease. Inhalation anesthesia, invented by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr.
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 ...
Map of the Black African population in the Americas (1901). Traditional terms for Afro–Latin Americans with their own developed culture include garífuna (in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize), cafuzo (in Brazil) and zambo in the Andes and Central America. Marabou is a term of Haitian origin denoting a Haitian of multiracial ethnicity.
Beyond Banneker: Black mathematicians and the path to excellence. [215] Williams, Lisa D (2000). The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of black faculty in the math and science pipeline: a life history approach (Dissertation). University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [216] Williams, Talithia M (2018).