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- Andrew Beard...
Andrew Beard received a patent for a device he called the Jenny Coupler. The Jenny Coupler automatically joined cars by simply allowing them to bump into each other, or as Beard described it the "horizontal jaws engage each other to connect the cars."
- Black Inventors_1...
Extentive listings of Black inventors throughout history.
- Black Inventor_2...
Achievements by Black inventors can be seen as far back as ancient Africa but much of society has no idea that many of the products or devices that make their everyday lives more enjoyable are the result of the hard work and ingenuity of Blacks.
- Black Inventor A-Z...
A complete listing of Black Inventors.
- Black Inventions and Inventors...
African Americans have invented a wide range of products in the United States. This website covers inventions by Black American from 1848-1950.
- Charles W. Buggs...
He conducted special research on why some bacteria (germs) do not react to certain medicines.
- Charles Drew...
Developer of techniques for storing and transfusing blood plasma.
- Charles Henry Turner...
He is credited with being the first researcher to prove that insects can hear and can also distinguish pitch.
- Daniel Hale Williams...
Pioneered in surgery on the human heart.
- Elijah McCoy...
Elijah's first invention was a lubricator for steam engines, which allowed machines to remain in motion to be oiled; his new oiling device revolutionized the industrial machine industry.His other inventions included an ironing board and lawn sprinkler.
- Famous Black Inventors...A database list of African American patent holders and individual biographies of African American inventors.
- Frederick M. Jones...
Frederick M. Jones patented a ticket dispensing machine for movie theaters, and also a sound system for theaters. Frederick also invented a refrigerator device installed on big trucks to keep perishables cold.
- Garrett A. Morgan...
Among Garrett's inventions was an early traffic signal, that greatly improved safety on America's streets and roadways. Indeed, Morgan's technology was the basis for modern traffic signal systems and was an early example of what we know today as Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- George Carruthers ...
George Carruthers first major contribution to science was to lead the team that invented the far ultraviolet camera spectrograph used for the Apollo 16 mission to the moon.
- George Washington Carver...
Former Slave, Educator, Scientist, Businessperson, Service Industry Employee, Agriculturist, Medical Worker, Artist, Author, Lecturer, Domestic, Reformer, Performing Artist.
- Granville T Woods...
Granville T Woods invented improvements to electric railways - air brakes - telephones and telegraphs - a chicken egg incubator and an apparatus for an amusement park ride.
- Great African Americans Inventors...
In tribute of just some of the great African Americans who have made contributions to society.
- G4 - Feature ...
G4 - Feature - The 12 Most Important African-American Inventors
- Invention Protection Associates...
African-American patent law firm providing the intellectual property law services that African-Americans need in order to protect their inventions, brand names, logos and other original creations and be able to profit from them.
- James Forten...
James Forten, prominent Philadelphia businessman, abolitionist and black leader, inventor.
- Jan Ernst Matzeliger...
Content resource on Jan Ernst Matzeliger, African American inventor of a shoemaking machine.
- J. Ernest Wilkins Jr....
By the time he was 27 J. Ernest Wilkins was part-owner of a firm which designed and developed nuclear reactors for creating atomic power.
- John Christian...
John Christian was working as an Air Force - Materials Research Engineer - when he invented and patented new lubricants - used in high flying aircraft and NASA space missions.
- Lewis Howard Latimer...
Lewis Latimer invented a device for efficiently manufacturing the carbon filaments used in electric lamps and shared a patent for the Maxim electric lamp. He also patented a threaded wooden socket for light bulbs.
- Louis T. Wright...
While serving in the Army Medical Corps during the First World War he introduced intradermal vaccination for smallpox.
- Lycos Zone...
Black Scientists & Inventors, Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Jennings, other exceptional scientists.
- Madam C.J. Walker...
Madam C. J. Walker founded her own business and began selling Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula, which she invented.
- Mathworkz.com...
Math Works Math-A-Mania.
- Meredith C. Gourdine...
Meredith Gourdine was a physicist, pioneer researcher and inventor in the field of electrogasdynamics, a process dealing with the action of charged particles moving through a gas stream.
- Norbert Rillieux...
Norbert Rillieux invented the sugar processing evaporator.
- Otis Boykin ...
Otis Boykin invented an improved electrical resistor used in computers - radios - television sets and a variety of electronic devices.
- Percy Julian...
Inventor of a remedy for arthiritis led to fame and fortune for Dr. Percy Julian, a noted chemical scientist.
- RJMiro.com
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New Invention Paper Rings fits within aligned punched holes in typing paper. Assorted colors can be used as promotional item.
- Rufus Stokes...
In 1968, Rufus Stokes was granted a patent on an air-purification device to reduce the gas and ash emissions of furnace and power plant smokestack emissions.
- Tarík Karenga
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Tarík Karenga son of Dr. Maulana Karenga who is the creator of the African American Holiday of Kwanzaa is a cultural and motivational speaker.Tarík's web site Tarikkarenga.com promotes the usage of culture as resource, cultural understanding diversity.
- Technology And The African American Inventor...
The purpose of this lesson is to create an awareness and understanding that important technological advances within our culture, in a variety of areas, are the result of the work done by a diverse group of people, many of whom are African Americans.
- The Institute of Black Invention & Technology, Inc....
The institute is a traveling exhibitor of inventions patented by African Americans, a conductor of workshops on incorporating black inventions into the preschool curriculum, and a presenter of lectures on black inventions.
- Vance H. Marchbanks Jr....
The first black Air Force doctor was also an space pioneer.
- William A. Hinton...
William A. Hinton was an African-American doctor, professor, and the first Black to publish an academic textbook.
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