Contemporary Black Inventors

A.P. Abourne

Refining of coconut oil.

July 27, 1980

A. B. Blackburn

Spring seat for chairs. Patent#

380,420

April 3, 1888

A.C. Richardson

Casket-Lowering Device. Patent#

529,311

November 13,
1894

A.C. Richardson

Churn. Patent # 466,470

February 17, 1891

A.E. Long and A.A.

Jones--

Caps For Bottles And Jars

1898

A.L. Lewis

Window Cleaner

1892

A.L. Rickman

Galoshes

1898

Anna M. Mangin

Pastry fork

March 1, 1892

Alexander P. Ashbourne

Biscuit Cutter

November, 1875

10

Alexander Miles

Elevator and also safety device for

elevators. Patent No. 371,207

October11, 1887

11

Alfred L. Cralle

Ice Cream Scooper. Patent #

576,395

February 2,1897

12

Alice Parker

Heating Furnace

1918

13

Andrew Beard

Automatic Car Coupling Device

1897

14

Augustus Jackson

Ice cream

1832

15

B. F. Cargill

Invalid cot. Patent# 629,658

July 25, 1899

16

B.F. Jackson

Gas Burner

17

Benjamin Banneker

Clock, Prints for Wash. DC 1st

Almanac

18

Bessie V. Griffin

Portable Receptacle

1951

19

C.B. Brook

Street Sweeper

1896

20

C.V. Richey

Fire Escape Bracket. Patent #

596,427

December 28,
1897

21

C. W. Allen

Self Leveling table. Patent #

613,436

November 1, 1898

22

D. McCree

Portable Fire Escape. Patent #

440,322

November 11,
1890

23

Darryl Thomas

Cattle Roping Apparatus

24

Dr. Charles Drew

Invented Blood Banks And

Established Them Around The
World

1940

25

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Performed First Open Heart

Surgery

1893

26

Edmond Berger

Spark Plug

27

Elbert R. Robinson

Electric Railway Trolley

28

Ellen Elgin

Clothes Wringer

1880s

29

Elijah Mccoy

Automatic Lubrication System (For

Railroad And Heavy Machinery)
1892

July 2, 1872

30

Folarin Sosan

Package-Park (Solves Package

Delivery Dilemma)
www.maita.com

1997

31

Frederick Jones

Ticket Dispensing Machine. Patent

# 2163754

June 27, 1939

32

Frederick Jones

Starter Generator. Patent # 2475842

July 12, 1949

33

Frederick Jones

Two-Cycle gasoline Engine. Patent

# 2523273

November 28,
1950

34

Frederick Jones

Air Condition. Patent # 2475841

July 12, 1949

35

Frederick Jones

Portable X-Ray Machine

36

G.W. Murray

Cultivator and Marker. Patent #

517,961

April 10, 1894

37

G.W. Murray

Combined Furrow Opener and

Stalk-Knocker. Patent # 517,960

April 10, 1894

38

G.W. Murray

Fertilizer Distributor. Patent#

520,889

June 5, 1894

39

G.W. Murray

Cotton Chopper. Patent # 520,888

June 5, 1894

40

G.W. Murray

Planter. Patent # 520,887

June 5, 1894

41

G. F. Grant

Golf Tee. Patent # 638,920

December 12,
1899

42

G.T. Sampson

Clothes Drier

1892

43

G.W. Kelley

Steam Table

1897

44

Garret A. Morgan

Gas Mask (Saved Many Lives

During WWI)

45

George Alcorn

46

George Tolivar

Ship's propeller

47

George Washington
Carver

Peanut Butter

1900

48

George Washington
Carver

300 products from peanuts, 118

products from the sweet potato and
75 from the pecan.

1900-1943

49

Garret A. Morgan

Automatic Traffic Signal

1923

50

Gertrude E. Downing and

William Desjardin

Corner Cleaner Attachment.

Patent # 3,715,772

February 13, 1973

51

Granville Woods

Telephone (His Telephone Was Far

Superior To Alexander Graham
Bell's)

Dec. 2,1884

52

Granville Woods

Trolley Car

1888

53

Granville Woods

Multiplex Telegraph System

(Allowed Messages To Be Sent And
Received From Moving Trains)

1887

54

Granville Woods

Railway Air Brakes (The First Safe

Method Of Stopping Trains) 1903

55

Granville Woods

Steam Boiler/Radiator

56

Granville Woods--

Third Rail (Subway)

57

H. Grenon

58

H.H. Reynolds

Window Ventilator for Railroad

Cars.
Patent No.275,271

59

H.A. Jackson

Kitchen Table

60

Henry Blair

Mechanical Seed Planter

61

Henry Blair

Mechanical Corn Harvester

62

Henry Single

Patented an Improved Fish Hook.

He sold it later for $625.

1854

63

Henry Sampson

Cellular Phone

July 6th, 1971

Fabrication of spectrometer. Patent

# 4,618,380

Razor Stropping Device. Patent #

554,867

1914
October 21, 1986

1884

February 18, 1896

April 3, 1883

1830

64

I.O. Carter

Nursery Chair

1960

65

Issac R. Johnson

Bicycle Frame

66

J. A. Joyce

Ore Bucket. Patent # 603,143

April 26, 1898

67

J. Hawkins

Patented the Gridiron

March 3, 1845

68

J. Gregory

Motor

69

J.A. Sweeting

Cigarette Roller

70

J.B. Winters

Fire Escape Ladder

71

J. H. Hunter

72

J.F. Pickering

73

J. H. Robinson

74

J. Robinson

75

J. W. Reed

76

J. Ross

Bailing Press. Patent # 632,539

Sept 05, 1899

77

J.H. White

Convertible Sette (A Large Sofa)

1892

78

J.H. White

Lemon Squeezer

1896

79

J.L. Love

Pencil Sharpener. Patent # 594,114

23 November
1897

80

J.S. Smith

Lawn Sprinkler. Patent # 581,785

May 4, 1897

81

James Forten

Sailing Apparatus

1850

82

James S. Adams

Airplane Propelling

83

Jan Matzelinger

Automatic Shoe Making Machine

1883

84

Joan Clark

Medicine Tray

1987

85

John A. Johnson

Wrench

86

John Burr

Lawn Mower

87

John Parker

88

John Standard

Refrigerator. Patent# 304,552

89

Joseph Gammel

Supercharge System for Internal

1897

Portable Weighing Scales. Patent #

November 3, 1896
570,533
Air Ship
Lifesaving guards for Street Cars.
Patent# 623,929
Dinner Pail. Patent# 356,852

1892
April 25, 1899
February 1, 1887

Dough Kneader and Roller. Patents#

September 2, 1884
304,552

"Parker Pulverizer" Follower-Screw

for Tobacco Presses. Patent#
September 2, 1884
304,552
Jul 14,1894

Combustion Engine
90

Joseph N. Jackson

Programmable Remote Control

91

L.C. Bailey

Folding Bed

1899

92

L. Bell

Locomotive smoke stack. Patent#

115,153

May 23, 1871

93

L. F. Brown

Bridle bit. Patent # 484,994

October 25, 1892

94

L.S. Burridge And N.R.

Marsham

Typewriter

1885

95

Lewis Howard Latimer

Light Bulb Filament

96

Lewis Temple

Toggle Harpoon (Revolutionized

The Whaling Industry)

97

Lloyd A. Hall

Chemical compound to preserve

meat

98

Lloyd P. Ray

Dust Pan

99

Lydia Holmes

Wood Toys. Patent # 2,529,692

100

Lydia O. Newman

Hair brush

101

M.C. Harney

Lantern/Lamp

Aug.19, 1884

102

Madam. C. Walker

Hair Care Products

1905

103

Majorie Joyner

104

Madeline M. Turner

The Fruit Press

1916

105

Marie V. Brittan Brown

Security System. Patent #

3,482,037

December 2, 1969

106

Manley West

Discovered compound in canibis to

cure glaucoma.

1980-1987

107

Norbett Rillieux

Sugar Refining System

1846

108

O.B. Clare

Rail Tresle. Patent# 390,753

October 9, 1888

109

O. E. Brown

Horse Shoe

8/23/1892

110

Onesimus

Small Pox Inoculation (He Brought

This Method From Africa Where
Advance Medical Practices Were In
Use Long Before Europeans Had
Any Medical Knowledge)

1721

Permanent hair wave machine.

Patent # 1693515

1848

November 14,
1950

November 27,
1928

111

Otis F. Boykin

Wire Type Precision Resistor.

Patent # U.S. 2,891,227

112

Paul E Williams

Helicopter

113

Peter Walker

Machine for Cleaning Seed Cotton

114

Phillip Downing

Letter Drop Mailbox. Patent #

462,096

October 27, 1891

115

Philip Emeagwali

Accurate Weather Forecasting

1990

116

Philip Emeagwali

Hyperball Computer

April 1996

117

Philip Emeagwali

Improved Petroleum Recovery

1990

118

Philip Emeagwali

World's Fastest Computer

1989

119

R.A. Butler

Train alarm. Patent #157,370

June 15, 1897

120

R.P. Scott

Corn Silker

1894

121

Richard Spikes

Automatic Gear Shift

122

Robert Flemming Jr.

Guitar

123

S. H. Love

Improvement to military guns.

Patent # 1301143.

22 April 1919

124

S. H. Love

Improve Vending Machine. Patent #

1936515

November 21,
1933

125

Sara E. Goode

Cabinet Bed

1885

126

Rufus Stokes Patent

#3,378,241

Exhaust Purifier

April 16, 1968

127

Sarah Boone

Ironing Board

April 26, 1892

128

T. Elkins

Toilet

1897

129

T. J. Byrd

130

Thomas Carrington

Range Oven

1876

131

Thomas J.Martin

Patented the Fire Extinguisher

March 26, 1872

132

Thomas W. Stewart

Mop

1893

133

Virgie M. Ammons

134

W. A. Lovette

The Advance Printing Press

135

W. F. Burr

Railway Switching device . Patent #

636,197

June 16, 1959

March 3, 1886

Rail car coupling . Patent# 157,370 December 1, 1874

Fireplace Damper Actuating Tool.

Patent # 3,908,633

September 30,
1975

Oct.31,1899

136

W. H. Ballow

Combined hatrack and table. Patent

# 601,422

March 29, 1898

137

W.S. Campbell

Self-setting animal trap. Patent#

246,369

August 30, 1881

138

W. Johnson

Egg Beater

1884

139

W.B. Purvis

The Fountain Pen Patent# 419,065

Jan 7,1890

140

W.D. Davis

Riding Saddles

October 6, 1895

141

W.H. Sammons

Hot Comb

1920

142

W.S. Grant

Curtain Rod Support

1896

143

William Barry

Postmarking and Canceling

machine

144

Wm. Harwell

Attachment for shuttle arm; device

used to capture satellites

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Ancient Black Inventors

INVENTOR

INVENTIONS

DATES
10 000 BC
or Earlier

Africans

Civilization

Africans

Democracy

Africans

Chess

Africans

Alphabet

Africans

Petroleum:- petroleum was used by Kemetians(Africans) as

bitume and combustile. Petroleum was found in the
3000-4000
mummies.The extraction and production of oil required a
BC
high knownledge of geology,mathematiques,chimistry...

Africans

Writing(hieroglyphics) Mdw Ntr

2613-2494
BC

Africans

Maths and Engineering

2613-2494
BC

Africans

Paper (made from Papyrus)

Africans

Boats (made from Papyrus)

800 BC
and
Earlier

Africans

Pyramids

Africans

Calendars: Solar, Lunar, Astrological, ect. (360 days/12

months

Africans

Domestication of Animals

Africans

Art and Literature, Philosophy and Spiritual Sytems

Africans

Mining (Gold, Tin, Copper, Iron and other metals)

Imhotep

Father of Scientific Medecine

Akhenaten

Belief in one God

Africans

Stone Achitecture

2613-2494
BC

Africans

Sytem of Higher Education :Universities (Timbuktu)

2 - 6 AD

Africans

Agriculture

Africans

Labor and Economics

Kemetic
(African)
Scholars

Established such principles and concepts as the

Mind/Soul/Spirit, spiritual transformation, life and death,
resurrection and after-life, Ancestralhood, immortality,
creation, universal order, ideas, will, thought, speech,
memory, learning, human development, justice, morality,
human nature, self-consciousness, unconscious or
subconscious, and many others, long before the Greeks were
known to exist in human history

2613-2494
BC

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contributions of people of African descent to world development is maliciously ignored
or hidden or even pass off as white inventions. This small test is designed mainly to
expose the truth about the great contributions made by countless black inventors to the

progress of humanity, since the beginning of human civilization until today. So if you
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about black inventors then Jump Right In!!

Question 1
Who first introduced the concept of One God?
Moses
Roman Catholics
Akhenaten
The Pope.

Question 2
Where was the art of writing invented?
Europe
America
China
Africa-Kemet(Ancient Egypt)

Question 3
Who is the true father of Medicine?
Imhotep
Hypocrates

Newton
Sacrotes

Question 4
The first calender known to man was found in Africa. In that calender how
many days are in 12 months?
365 days
200 days
400 days
360 days

Question 5
Africans in Ancient Kemet, now known as Egypt first invented paper. What
is the name of the material that this paper was made from?
Papyrus
Wood
Stone
Cotton

Question 6
Which of the following is true?
The first known organized civilizations appeared in Africa in about 10 000 BC
The Ancient Greeks were the first civilizations

Africans did not contribute to world civilization

China is the origin of man.

Question 7
Which best describes Africa?
A backward place.
A continent that is poor in natural resources.
A place that only has exotic wild animals but no significant human
achievements.
The original home of humanity, the cradle of civilization and intellect.

Question 8
Africans were the first known miners. Three metals that they mined were?
Uranium, Aluminum and Platinum
Silicon, Picth and Bauxite
Gold, Tin and Copper
None of the above

Question 9
Where in Africa were the world's first known Universities established?
South Africa

Kenya
Congo
Timbuktu

Question 10
Around what dates were the world's first Universities introduced
2-6 AD.
1880-1890.
1200-1300
6-8 AD.

Question 11
Who created the concept of Art and Literature, Philosophy and Spiritual
Sytems?
Greeks
Africans
Chinese
Mayans

Question 12
Where were the first domestication of animals done?
Asia.
South America.

Africa.
Arabia.

Question 12
Where were the first domestication of animals done?
Asia.
South America.
Africa.
Arabia.

Question 14
Is it true to say Africans were the inventors of gun powder?
Yes.
No the Greeks invented it.
No the Vikings invented it.
No the Chinese invented

Question 15
The first people to use stones in building structures were?
Americans.
Africans.
Europeans.
Australians.

Question 16
Who invented Blood Banks and established them around the World?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Marcus Garvey
Dr. Charles Drew
Newton

Question 17
What is the name of the black man that invented the Mechanical Seed
Planter?
Andrew Beard.
Michael Jordon.
Henry Blair.
Tony martin.

Question 18
Norbett Rillieux invented the:
Sugar Refining System.
Boats.
Computers.
Refrigerators.

Question 19
He invented the Mechanical Corn Harvester. Who is he?

John Daily
Andrew Beard
Manley
Henry Blair

Question 20
Which Black Person invented the Elevator?
Michael Jackson
Alexander Miles
Granville Woods
Henry Blair

Question 21
What did J.S. Smith invent?
Parachute
Lawn Sprinkler
Cars
Lawn Mower

Question 22
This household machinery was invented in 1892 by G.T. Sampson:?
Computer
Clothes Dryer

Table
Microwave

Question 23
Who invented the Fountain Pen in 1890?
G.T. Sampson
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
W.B. Purvis
Chinese

Question 24
Garret A. Morgan is credited for inventing the?
Gun
Gas Mask (Saved Many Lives During WWI)
Harpoon
Poison Gas

Question 26
Who Invented the Toggle Harpoon which revolutionized the Whaling
Industry?
Lewis Temple
Colin Jones
Sammuel Jim
Steve Smith

Question 27
John Burr is a Black man who invented the
Lawn Mower
Fork
Cutlass
Lawn Spinkler

Question 28
The automatic gear shift revolutionized the way we drive. Who invented it?
W. Lovette.
Richard Spikes
James Cameron.
Jim Burger.

Question 29
The Small Pox Inoculation was brought from Africa by who?
Mandela
Clayton
Jan Kelly
Onesimus

Question 30
Who performed the first open heart surgery?

Andrew Beard
Daniel Steel
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Charles Drew

Question 31
In what year did L.S. Burridge And N.R. Marsham invent the typewriter?
1885
1880
1990
1500

Question 32
The Automatic Shoe Making Machine was invented in 1883 by?
G.W. Kelley
Onesimus
Jan Matzelinger
Lovette

Question 34
The Air Condition invention was done by ?
Joseph Gammel
Frederick Jones

Semore Wilson
Richard Spikes

Question 35
The Refrigerator was invented by?
William Barry
John Standard
Lloyd P. Ray
Jones Spikes

Question 36
The Light Bulb Filament was invented by?
Phillip Downing
Barry Sanders
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lloyd P. Ray

Question 37
Robert Flemming Jr. invented this musical instrument?
Piano
Drum
Trumpet
Guitar

Question 38
Bicycle Frames came into use since it was invented by?
T. Elkins
Issac R. Johnson
Paul E Williams
Michael Jordan

Question 39
The great invention of the Helicopter was done by this black man. Who was
he?
Paul E Williams
Henry Sampson
Joseph N. Jackson
Longston Hughes

Question 40
The Cellular Phone which tremedously improved communication, was
invented by?
Isaac Newton
Jim Johnston
Sammy Sosa
Henry Sampson

Question 41
B.F. Jackson created the?

Gas Burner
Ice Cream
Bicycle Frame
Computer

Question 42
James S. Adams invented?
Muffler
Aeroplane Propelling
Jets
Spoons

Question 43
The toilet (commode) was invented by
T. Elkins
B.F. Jackson
James Adams
WM. Harwell

Question 44
Augustus Jackson invented this great food product?
Bread
Ice cream
Cakes
Milk

Question 45
J. Gregory invented the?
motor
steering wheel
bulbs
car seat

Question 46
The Fire Escape Ladder was invented by?
J.Gregory
Henry Sampson
J.B. Winters
Jay Norman

Question 47
The cattle roping apparatus was created by?
Darryl Thomas
Griffin Jones
J.Winters
Sara E. Goode

Question 48
Choose the popular school or office equipment that was invented by J.L.
Love
Table
computer
Pen
Pencil Sharpener

Question 49
C.B. Brook invented the?
The tractor
broom
street sweeper
stove

Question 50
Who was well known for her hair products invention
Madam C.J. Walker
Marry Blackman
Jilly James
Harriet Tudman

Question 51
The Portable X-Ray Machine was created by
Frederick Jones

Granville Woods
James Jones
Jimmy

Question 52
The Egg Beater was invented by
W. Johnson
W.H. Sammons
J.H.White
Steve Johns

Question 53
Caps for Bottles and Jars were invented by
Stokely Carmichael
Andrew Long
Wilbert Johnson
A.E. Long and A.A. Jones

Question 54
Choose the object that was invented by W.H. Sammons:
Hot Comb
Shampoo
Hair Clip
Soap

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