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1855–1905. Inventor. 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, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee.
Occupation (s) Engineer and Inventor. Employer. Walt Disney Imagineering. Lanny Smoot (born December 13, 1955 [1]) is an American electrical engineer, inventor, scientist, and theatrical technology creator. With over 100 patents, he is Disney's most prolific inventor [2] and one of the most prolific Black inventors in American history. [3]
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.
Alice H. Parker was born in 1895 in Morristown, New Jersey, where she grew up some of her life. [2] [3] Parker was a highly educated woman who graduated with honors in 1910 from Howard University Academy, a historically African-American university that accepted both male and female students since its founding in November 1866, shortly after the Civil War. [4]
Died. February 21, 1961. (1961-02-21) (aged 67) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1] Jones innovated mobile refrigeration technology.
Alexander Miles, circa 1895. Alexander Miles (May 18, 1838 – May 7, 1918) was an African American inventor and businessman, known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors. He was awarded U.S. patent 371,207 on October 11, 1887.
Henry Blair (inventor) The drawing of the Seed-Planter by Blair used on the patent application in 1836. Henry Blair (c. 1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a US patent. [1] He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States, in 1807. His first invention was the Seed-Planter, [2] patented October 14, 1834, which ...
Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor.The holder of a number of United States patents, his improvements on existing inventions include a beer tap, automobile directional signals, an automatic gear shift device based on automatic transmission for automobiles and other motor vehicles and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.