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Major city(s) Daily ridership Number of vehicles Daily vehicle revenue miles References Avon Transit Avon Avon 334 3 423 Bustang: Statewide Statewide 766 80 5,454 [195] City of Loveland Transit Loveland: Loveland 399 5 428 [196] [197] Durango Transit La Plata County Durango 1,165 18 175 [198] [199] Grand Valley Transit
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
William B. Purvis (12 August 1838 – 10 August 1914) [1] was an African-American inventor and businessman who received multiple patents in the late 19th-century. His inventions included improvements on paper bags, an updated fountain pen design, improvement to the hand stamp, and a close-conduit electric railway system.
Her younger brother Edgar Pinkerton Benjamin (1869–1972) graduated from Boston University's law school and had a successful private practice in the city of Boston. [30] Although best remembered for establishing the Resthaven Nursing Home (now the Benjamin Healthcare Center) in Roxbury, Massachusetts , he also received U.S. patent no. 475,749 ...
The Blue Bird Corporation (originally known as the Blue Bird Body Company) is an American bus manufacturer headquartered in Fort Valley, Georgia.Best known for its production of school buses, the company has also manufactured a wide variety of other bus types, including transit buses, motorhomes, and specialty vehicles such as mobile libraries and mobile police command centers.
1847: Ascanio Sobrero invents Nitroglycerin, the first explosive made that was stronger than black powder. 1848: Jonathan J. Couch invents the pneumatic drill. 1848: Linus Yale Sr. invents the first modern pin tumbler lock. 1849: Walter Hunt invents the first repeating rifle to use metallic cartridges (of his own design) and a spring-fed magazine.
Ronald Johnson, vice president of the Montford Point Marine Association, talks with George J. Johnson, a 101-year-old former Marine honored Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, for being among the first Black ...
The Tallahassee bus boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida, that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On May 26, 1956, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A&M University students, were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department for "placing themselves in a ...