African American inventions

[TEH]

Cacs on Reddit put out a list trying to disprove all Black inventions I really hate that site

 

[thewiz]

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.

Good looks I'll definitely check it out

 

[thewiz]

Cacs on Reddit put out a list trying to disprove all Black inventions I really hate that site

fukking clowns bro

 

[feelosofer]

These inventions are shadows of the remnants of our ancestors highly advanced civilizations. We hold a great genius within us that only a few of us have tapped into.

 

[thewiz]

These inventions shadows of the remnants of our ancestors highly advanced civilizations. We hold a great genius within us that only a few of us have tapped into.

Real shyt and that's why I made the thread.. the average African American doesn't know their true culture or recent and past accomplishments of other blacks thanks to these cacs

 

[BlackAmerican]

Henry Blair was an inventor and farmer best known as the second African American to hold a United States patent.

A successful farmer, Blair patented two inventions that helped him to boost his productivity. He received his first patent—for a corn planter—on October 14, 1834. The planter resembled a wheelbarrow, with a compartment to hold the seed and rakes dragging behind to cover them. This device enabled farmers to plant their crops more efficiently and enable a greater total yield. Blair signed the patent with an "X," indicating that he was illiterate.

Blair obtained his second patent, for a cotton planter, on August 31, 1836. This invention functioned by splitting the ground with two shovel-like blades that were pulled along by a horse or other draft animal. A wheel-driven cylinder behind the blades deposited seed into the freshly plowed ground. The design helped to promote weed control while distributing seeds quickly and evenly.

In claiming credit for his two inventions, Henry Blair became only the second African American to hold a United States patent. While Blair appears to have been a free man, the granting of his patents is not evidence of his legal status. At the time Blair's patents were granted, United States law allowed patents to be granted to both free and enslaved men. In 1857, a slave owner challenged the courts for the right to claim credit for a slave's inventions. Since an owner's slaves were his property, the plaintiff argued, anything in the possession of these slaves was the owner's property as well.

The following year, patent law changed so as to exclude slaves from patent eligibility. In 1871, after the Civil War, the law was revised to grant all American men, regardless of race, the right to patent their inventions. Women were not included in this intellectual-property protection. Blair followed only Thomas Jennings as an African-American patent holder. Extant records indicate that Jennings received a patent in 1821 for the "dry scouring of clothes." Though the patent record contains no mention of Jennings's race, his background has been substantiated through other sources.

http://www.biography.com/people/henry-blair-21319709

 

[BlackAmerican]

Lloyd Augustus Hall

Lloyd Augustus Hall invented a number of ways to better preserve food. During his career he amassed 59 U.S. patents. Many food preservatives used today were pioneered by Dr. Hall's methods. Before his research, most preservation was done with salts and it was difficult to keep foods from spoiling without making them taste bitter. In 1932 he found a way to use a combination of salt with tiny crystals of sodium nitrate and nitrite that suppressed the nitrogen that spoiled food. This patented method of curing meats is still used today.

Hall also proved that some spices exposed food to microbes that sped up the process of food spoiling. This was contrary to beliefs at the time, which held that spices acted as food preservatives. To address this issue, Hall created a system to sterilize spices by using ethylene gas in a vacuum chamber that was later adapted by the food, drug, and cosmetic industries.

American Chemical Society





List of Hall's patents:

Patents Issued to Lloyd August Hall

 

[TEH]

I know there have been modern inventions from this century ... where can we get that list

 

[thewiz]

 

[IronFist]

beautiful thread op

 

[thewiz]

Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, created an early closed-circuit television system to be used for home monitoring. That security system was the forerunner of all advanced home security technology in use today.

Marie Van Brittan Brown: Home Security System Inventor - America Comes Alive

 

[Asicz]

Why don't they teach us this in school !!!!

 

[thewiz]

Why don't they teach us this in school !!!!

You know why

 

[thewiz]

Ninety percent of microphones used today are based on the ingenuity of James Edward West, an African-American inventor born in 1931 in Prince Edwards County, VA. If you’ve ever talked on the telephone, you’ve probably used his invention.

Dr. James E. West and a colleague, Gerhard Sessler, developed the mic (officially known as the Electroacoustic Transducer Electret Microphone) while with Bell Laboratories, and they received a patent for it in 1962. The acoustical technologies employed became widely used for many reasons including high performance, acoustical accuracy and reliability. It is also small, lightweight and cost effective.

 

[Breh13]