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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.
Rufus Stokes (September 3, 1924 – June 22, 1986), an African American inventor, was born in Phenix City, Alabama.. Early life. Rufus Stokes grew up in the rural American South and attended public school in Alabama until he was 18 years old.
Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor.The holder of a number of United States patents, his improvements on existing inventions include a beer tap, automobile directional signals, an automatic gear shift device based on automatic transmission for automobiles and other motor vehicles and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.
James Dean, Barbara Dean. Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) [1] is an African American [2] inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one- gigahertz computer processor chip. [3] He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. [4]
Benjamin Bradley (inventor) Benjamin Boardley (March 1830 – 1904) was an American engineer and inventor. Benjamin's correct surname was Boardley, [1][2][3] but since 1859 when the African Repository published an article wrongly spelling Benjamin's surname as Bradley, authors have written about him with the incorrect surname. [4]
Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Inventor, engineer. Years active. 67 years. Known for. Friction heater. Charles S. Lewis Baker (August 3, 1859 – May 5, 1926) was an American inventor who patented the friction heater.
Dough kneader and roller. Judy Woodford Reed (c. 1826 – c. 1905) [1] was an African-American woman alive during the 1880s, whose only records are a US patent and censuses. Reed, from Virginia, is considered the first African American woman to receive a US patent. Patent No. 305,474 for a "Dough Kneader and Roller" was granted September 23, 1884.
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