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He was the first African American to own and operate a car manufacturing company. [ 9 ] After producing somewhere between 30 and 150 vehicles, he had difficulty getting financing for expansion, Patterson decided to change his business rather than compete head on with the major Detroit industry.
Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor who held several United States patents. He is credited with developing and improving inventions such as a beer tap, a modification of an automatic gear shift mechanism for motor vehicles, and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.
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.
(November 8, 1922 – March 8, 2006) [1] was the first African American automotive designer, and he was the first African American Designer to work at the Ford Motor Company. [2] [3] Thompson was a designer on the first generation Ford Bronco, and also was a designer on the first generation Ford Mustang, Ford Thunderbird, and Ford GT40 racing ...
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C.R. Patterson and Sons was an American automotive company headquartered in Greenfield, Ohio and for one year in Gallia, Ohio; [1] founded by Frederick Douglas Patterson and named after his father Charles "Rich" Richard Patterson.
Lucean Arthur Headen (26 August 1879 – 17 September 1957) [1] was an American aviator, inventor, and entrepreneur. An early African-American barnstormer in the 1910s, he later co-founded the first United States-wide African-American automobile racing association, the African-American Automobile Association, and founded companies in the United States and England.
Patterson was born in April 1833 as a slave on a Virginia plantation. [1] [4] [5] He was the oldest of the thirteen children of Charles and Nancy Patterson.[6] [2] There are conflicting stories on how he left the plantation, he ended up living in Greenfield, Ohio, which was also the site of an underground railroad station.