by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
Matthew Cherry Created a Tricycle and a Streetcar Fender Pioneer/Entrepreneur Matthew Cherry developed two devices that would one day evolve into very useful items for transportation. The first device was called a velocipede and consisted of a metal frame upon which... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
George Carruthers Developed a Method for Measuring and Detected Ultraviolet Lights Often, greatness is determined by the times in which one finds oneself. For George Carruthers, growing up in the earliest stages of the space race, he like most other boys was... 
by gaiusx | Nov 26, 2012 | Inventors, Male Inventors, Others
Henry Brown Created a Strongbox for Personal Valuables Henry Brown was an inventor who saw a need for a convenient and secure way to store money, valuables and important papers. At that time, people commonly kept those type of items in wooden or cardboard boxes in... 
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...
