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Creating the gamma-electric cell. Henry Thomas Sampson Jr. (April 22, 1934 – June 4, 2015) was an American engineer, inventor and film historian [1] who created the gamma-electric cell in 1972 — a device with the main goal of generating auxiliary power from the shielding of a nuclear reactor. He wrote wrote Blacks in Black and White: A ...
1855–1905. Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [81][82][83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee.
The origins of patent racism in the United States can be traced back to the country's founding and the institution of slavery. Enslaved individuals were legally prohibited from owning patents, effectively denying them recognition and economic benefits for their innovations. [2] In 1858, the U.S. Attorney General ruled that a free African ...
Andrew Jackson Beard. Miriam Benjamin. Henry Blair (inventor) Sarah Boone. Otis Boykin. Benjamin Bradley (inventor) Charles B. Brooks. Henry Brown (inventor) Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown.
The Colored Inventor. Henry Edwin Baker Jr. (September 1, 1857 – April 27, 1928) was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where he would chronicle the history of African-American inventors .
Educational opportunities were limited, particularly in the south. In 1933, in the southern United States, just 54% of white students and only 18% of black students went on to attend high school. Segregated black high schools and colleges in the south had limited resources and were able to offer few opportunities for scientific training.
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. [1] He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. [2] Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.
But those changes, Sampson said, “are superficial” and don’t go far enough to address the systemic inequalities that still exist in predominately Black parts of town. Sampson and other ...