by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
Charles Brooks Developed the Street-sweeper. Charles Brooks designed the street sweeper and patented it on March 17, 1896. Prior to his invention, streets were cleaned manually by workers picking up trash by hand or sweeping it with brooms. Brooks’ invention was made... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
Benjamin Bradley Developed a Special Steamboat Propeller. From Slave to Innovator Benjamin Bradley was born around 1830 as a slave in Maryland. He was able to read and write, although at the time it was illegal for a slave to do so (he likely learned from the Master’s... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
Otis Boykin Invented Resistors for Pacemakers Otis F. Boykin was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. After graduating high school, he attended Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated in 1941 and took a job as a laboratory assistant with the Majestic... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Female Inventors, Inventors, Others
Sarah Boone An African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She founded a hair and beauty supply company aimed at Black consumers and was heralded by the the Guinness Book of World Records as the first female self-made millionaire... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
Henry Blair Invented a Seed Planter and Corn Harvester Henry Blair was the second Black inventor issued a patent by the United States Patent Office. Born in 1807 in Glen Ross, Maryland, Blair was a free man, his first invention was a seed planter which enabled farmers... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Female Inventors, Inventors, Others
Miriam Benjamin An African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She founded a hair and beauty supply company aimed at Black consumers and was heralded by the the Guinness Book of World Records as the first female self-made...
