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This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
The Cișmigiu Gardens or Cișmigiu Park (Romanian: Grădinile Cișmigiu or Parcul Cișmigiu) are a public park in the center of Bucharest, Romania, spanning areas on all sides of an artificial lake. The gardens' creation was an important moment in the history of Bucharest .
First African-American woman to receive a United States patent. Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization of rubber; Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989), India – low-cost Braille Typewriter; Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex
Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor. Trefor Jenkins (born 1932), human geneticist from South Africa, noted for his work on DNA. Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
Leonard C. Bailey, African American businessman and inventor [70] Nat Bailey (1902–1978), American-born Canadian restaurateur, founder of White Spot. Mount Lebanon Lodge No. 72, Vancouver. [71] Theodorus Bailey (1805–1877), United States Navy officer during the American Civil War. Raised in Washington Lodge No. 21, New York City, on 3 March ...
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Lake Cișmigiu Lake Floreasca Lake Herăstrău. The Lakes, Parks and Leisure Administration in Bucharest (Romanian: Administrația Lacuri, Parcuri și Agrement) has under its upkeep nine lakes and nine dams, from the total of 15 located on the Colentina River, that started to be built since 1936 and that cover a total area of 1,153.98 ha (2,851.5 acres) and have a combined volume of 29,571,000 ...