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8 lis 2020 · Lewis Latimer (Sept. 4, 1848–Dec. 11, 1928) is considered one of the most important Black inventors for the number of inventions he produced and patents he secured, but also for the importance of his best-known discovery: a longer-lasting filament for the electric light.
16 lut 2021 · Janet Emerson Bashen (born February 12, 1957) is an American inventor and entrepreneur and the first African American woman to hold a patent for a software invention. The patented software, LinkLine, is a web-based application for Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) claims intake and tracking, claims management, and document management.
2 kwi 2014 · Known as "Black Edison," Granville Woods was an African American inventor who made key contributions to the development of the telephone, streetcar and more.
25 lut 2021 · Granville Woods invented quite a few devices, including a telephone-telegraph hybrid that allowed people to speak over telegraph wires.
22 paź 2023 · Ignored a call from a pesky sales company? Dr Shirley Jackson made that possible after paving the way for caller ID. The stories of Black gamechangers have been told in films such as Selma,...
Alexander Graham Bell is credited as inventing the telephone, Thomas Edison the electric light. Both inventions have changed the way we’ve lived our lives, but one person connects both inventions and made them possible. Lewis Howard Latimer was born on the 4th September 1848 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
4 paź 2021 · Latimer had many inventions, but it could be argued that his drawings for Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, helped seal his place in science history. The story goes that Bell was in a race against time, as rivals were also looking to gain patent rights for a similar device.
