by Elaine Luther | Feb 10, 2021 | Inventors
Guest post author: Lily Does your house have a security system? Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security systems which made the homes of so many people safer! Born on October 20, 1922 in New York, she was an inventor and Nurse. Marie Van...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 17, 2020 | Inventors
Water guns, the telephone, caller ID, traffic lights with three lights – all things we take for granted today and probably never think about who invented them or what life was like before these wonderful inventions. Here are 7 Black American inventors and what...
by Elaine Luther | Sep 7, 2019 | Inventors
Sarah E. Goode (1855-1905) was the first African American woman to be awarded a U.S. Patent, for a cabinet bed, which would fold up during the day “so as to occupy less space, and made generally to resemble some article of furniture when so folded.” Her patent was...
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