BLACK INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS (in honour of #blackhistorymonth)
1. MADAM C.J WALKER: (Dec 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919)
Known For - Developing line of beauty and hair products for black women.
2. GARRETT MORGAN: (March 4, 1877 - July 27, 1963)
Known For - Inventing Smoke Hood popularly called "gas mask" and Hair processing and straightening solution.
3. MARIE VAN BRITTAN BROWN: (Oct 20, 1922 - Feb 2, 1999)
4. LEWIS HOWARD LATIMER: (Sept 4, 1848 - Dec 11, 1928)
Known For - Inventing light bulbs with a carbon filament.
A draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigation on electric lights.
A draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigation on electric lights.
He wrote the first book on electric lighting, "Incandescent Electric Lighting" (1890) and supervised the installation of public electric lights throughout New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London.
5. BESSIE BLOUNT GRIFFIN: (November 24, 1914 – December 30, 2009)
Known For - Inventing an electric self-feeding apparatus to help amputees feed themselves.
6. FREDERICK MCKINLEY JONES: (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961)
Known For - Designing a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food.
Portable cooling units designed by Jones were especially important during World War II, preserving blood, medicine, and food for use at army hospitals and on open battlefields.
Portable cooling units designed by Jones were especially important during World War II, preserving blood, medicine, and food for use at army hospitals and on open battlefields.
7. MARY KENNER: (May 17, 1912 – January 13, 2006)
Known For - Development of Sanitary Belt. The sanitary napkin wasn't used until 1956, thirty years after she had first invented it due to racial discrimination. She invented a bathroom tissue holder and a back washer mounted on the shower or bathtub wall.
Known For - Development of Sanitary Belt. The sanitary napkin wasn't used until 1956, thirty years after she had first invented it due to racial discrimination. She invented a bathroom tissue holder and a back washer mounted on the shower or bathtub wall.
8. ELLEN EGLIN: (1849- after 1890)
Known For - Inventing a clothes wringer for washing machines. This invention came at a time when there were not a lot of ways to wash clothes other than with your hands. Therefore, this was an amazing invention and concept. However, Eglin decided to sell her patent to a “white person interested in manufacturing the product” for $18.
In the April 1890 issue of Woman Inventor, Eglin was quoted as saying “You know I am black and if it was known that a Negro woman patented the invention, white ladies would not buy the wringer. I was afraid to be known because of my color in having it introduced into the market that is the only reason.” The buyer went on to reap considerable financial awards.
9. LEONARD C. BAILEY: (1825–1918)
Known For - Inventing and receiving patents for a series of devices, many designed for military or government use. These included a folding bed, a rapid mail-stamping machine, a device to shift trains to different tracks, and a hernia truss adopted into wide use by the U. S. Military.
He helped establish the Capital Savings Bank of Washington D.C., one of the first African-American owned banks in the U.S. and during the Panic of 1893 maintained its solvency through obtaining a personal loan from a national bank.
He helped establish the Capital Savings Bank of Washington D.C., one of the first African-American owned banks in the U.S. and during the Panic of 1893 maintained its solvency through obtaining a personal loan from a national bank.
10. PERCY LAVON JULIAN: (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975)
Known For - Pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.
He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, plus a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol.
His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.
He later started his own company to synthesize steroid intermediates from the wild Mexican yam.
Known For - Pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.
He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, plus a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol.
His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.
He later started his own company to synthesize steroid intermediates from the wild Mexican yam.
His work helped greatly reduce the cost of steroid intermediates to large multinational pharmaceutical companies, helping to significantly expand the use of several important drugs.
He was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry.
He was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry.
He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted (behind David Blackwell) from any field.
Research gotten from wikipedia.
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