Is there any black person who has really invented or discovered something good?

Question

I mean Isaac Newton who was white discovered the generalised binomial theorem.
Japeneses have created a lot of technology.
A guy called Guillermo González Camarena who was mexican invented the color television
Is there any black who has invented or created something really good?

Answer 1

The traffic light
Gas masks (both by Garrett Morgan)

Long haul refrigeration systems on trucks.

The ironing board.

Open heart surgery.

Street sweeper trucks.

The electronic resistor (for which help make electronics possible)

The filament in a lightbulb (for which was Edison's toughest feat)

The WC (restroom) on trains.

Modern music.

The super soaker.

The jenny coupler (it links railroad cars, a dangerous task for which is how it's black inventor Andrew Beard, lost his leg.)

Carver invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum powder and more.

Matzeliger invented an automatic method for lasting shoes, which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.


Dr. Charles Richard Drew invented the possibility of blood banks.

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So enjoy your affordable shoes, PB, music, anything electronic that you have, milk when you don't live near a dairy farm, your flat shirts, clean streets, incandescent lights, vacuum tubes... but don't say black people haven't done anything to make life more livable for you.

Answer 2

George Washington Carver made huge advances in agriculture, Sarah Boone invented the precursor to the modern ironing board, Henry Brown invented the strongbox, and George Grant invented the golf tee, just to name a few.

Answer 3

Dr Charles Drew, who invented open heart surgery and the blood transfusion (and died because a segregated hospital denied him a blood transfusion due to his race!)

There were other great Black inventors as well - like the Bell Labs scientist who invented the cell phone, and the engineer who invented the "third rail" (the electric rail used to power subway trains)

Answer 4

Eli Whitney was white though some historians think the cotton gin idea came from an African slave but it's impossible to prove.

Donald Cotton invented propellants for nuclear reactors.

Answer 5

George Washington Carver was the "peanut guy" He invented over 200 ways to use peanuts.

Eli Whitney was responsible for the cotton gin.

Keep your eyes open in Feburary. its Black History month.

Answer 6

The reason why we don't hear of them is because during the times of the inventions, their identities were unwanted by the public. There is a list on the site below...you'll be impressed.

Answer 7

Here's a listing of Black inventors
http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/

Answer 8

It was a black man , who figured out how to transfer blood, The ironic part of the story's/ is he bleed to death because the hospital he went to did not take "***** patients", true story, but I can't remember his name, look it up under African history please, and let the rest of us get the full story.

Answer 9

Justice and Freedom.
Martin Lutter King.

Answer 10

Rock and Roll, R&B, Jazz, Ragtime.

Sorry, cant say rap.