African American inventions

[DMGAINGREEN]

Henry T Sampson , inventor of the first ever cell phone in 1971 even though cacs have been working vigorously to discredit him

 

[thewiz]

Patricia Bath
Born: Harlem, New York 11-04-1952
Invention: Laser Removal

a method for removing cataract lenses, transformed eye surgery, using a laser device making the procedure more accurate.

 

[BujuBoombastic]

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[BlackAmerican]

Lewis Latimer, created the carbon filament bulb, an improvement from Edison's original bulb. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Lewis Latimer

 

[BlackAmerican]

George Carruthers developed the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph, a planetary observatory that was used in the Apollo 16 mission. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2003.

http://www.biography.com/people/george-carruthers-538794

 

[thewiz]

Alexander Miles


Miles's automatic elevator doors dramatically improved passenger safety.

Invention: Early elevators were different from the mostly automated devices we're familiar with today. Passengers had to manually open and close the elevator doors, as well as the door leading to the elevator shaft. If anyone forgot to close the shaft door, other passengers could fall down the shaft when expecting to step into the elevator. Miles invented a mechanism that triggered the shaft doors to open and close along with the elevator doors, making the ride safer.

 

[BlackAmerican]

Lonnie Johnson

In 1992, Lonnie’s invention, the Super Soaker® water gun, generated over $200 million in retail sales. Total retail sales to date are close to one billion dollars. In 2000, Lonnie was named to the Inventor Hall of Fame for his invention of the Super Soaker®.

During his nine year career with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, he received multiple achievement awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for his work on spacecraft system design. He worked on the Galileo and Mars Observer projects, and was instrumental in the Cassini (Saturn) Mission.

At the age of 18, as a senior in high school, Lonnie won first place in a national science competition at the University of Alabama for his invention of a remote controlled robot, called "Linex," which he made from junkyard scraps.

http://www.biography.com/people/lonnie-g-johnson-17112946

 

[BlackAmerican]

James West is a U.S. inventor and professor who, in 1962, developed the electret transducer technology later used in 90 percent of contemporary microphones.

In 1960, while at Bell, West teamed up with fellow scientist Gerhard M. Sessler to develop an inexpensive, highly sensitive, compact microphone. In 1962, they finished development on the product, which relied on their invention of electret transducers. By 1968, the electret microphone was in mass production. West's and Sessler's invention became the industry standard, and today, 90 percent of all contemporary microphones—including the ones found in telephones, tape recorders, camcorders, baby monitors and hearing aids—use their technology.

http://www.biography.com/people/james-west-538802#education

 

[BlackAmerican]

Dr Keith Black

Keith L. Black, MD, is among an elite group of neurosurgeons in the world who perform hundreds of brain tumor operations each year. The precision of his surgical skill enables him to remove tumors that often have been considered inoperable. Dr. Black has a unique ability to combine cutting-edge research and an extremely busy surgical practice. Since 1987, he has performed more than 6,000 operations for resection of brain tumors.

He has assembled a surgical, research and clinical team focusing on tumors and other disorders of the brain. About three dozen full-time researchers now work with clinicians to translate scientific findings into new approaches to patient care. He is especially well known for devising ways to increase delivery of chemotherapy to brain tumors and for developing an experimental “vaccine” to boost immune response.

Black identified a naturally occurring peptide called bradykinin. Unlike the leukotrienes, bradykinin only affects the blood vessels of cancerous tissue, allowing therapeutic chemicals to attack brain tumors without affecting the healthy tissue of the brain. In 1994, Dr. Black patented a novel therapy, employing RMP-7, a synthetic version of bradykinin.

Keith Black Biography -- Academy of Achievement

Keith L. Black, MD

 

[BlackAmerican]

Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean is credited with helping develop a number of landmark technologies, including the color PC monitor, the Industry Standard Architecture system bus and the first gigahertz chip.

As an engineer, Dean proved to be a rising star at the company. Working closely with a colleague, Dennis Moeller, Dean developed the new Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) systems bus, a new system that allowed peripheral devices like disk drives, printers and monitors to be plugged directly into computers. The end result was more efficiency and better integration.

But his groundbreaking work didn't stop there. Dean's research at IBM helped change the accessibility and power of the personal computer. His work led to the development of the color PC monitor and, in 1999, Dean led a team of engineers at IBM's Austin, Texas, lab to create the first gigahertz chip—a revolutionary piece of technology that is able to do a billion calculations a second.

http://www.biography.com/people/mark-dean-604036

 

[Big Mel]

Madame C.J. Walker made the straightening comb, but you won't know this if you weren't shown.

 

[Elle Driver]

Patricia Bath
Born: Harlem, New York 11-04-1952
Invention: Laser Removal

a method for removing cataract lenses, transformed eye surgery, using a laser device making the procedure more accurate.

I read about that smh at how crackers abused black male prisoners through her invention.

 

[thewiz]

I read about that smh at how crackers abused black male prisoners through her invention.

Wait what? Smh link me

 

[Elle Driver]

Wait what? Smh link me

Reading a book called Medical Apartheid. You should get it, it talks about a host of experiments done through out history on black Americans. I recommended it in the book thread in this section.

 

[BlackAmerican]

Otis Boykin’s noteworthy inventions include a wire precision resistor and a control unit for the pacemaker. When he died in 1982, he had 26 patents in his name.

Boykin, who took a special interest in working with resistors, began researching and inventing on his own. He sought and received a patent for a wire precision resistor on June 16, 1959. This resistor would later be used in radios and televisions. Two years later, he created a breakthrough device that could withstand extreme changes in temperature and pressure. The device, which was cheaper and more reliable than others on the market, came in great demand by the United States military for guided missles and IBM for computers.

In 1964, Boykin moved to Paris, creating electronic innovations for a new market of customers. His most famous invention was a control unit for the pacemaker. Ironically, Boykin died in Chicago in 1982 as a result of heart failure. Upon his death, he had 26 patents to his name.

http://www.biography.com/people/otis-boykin-538792