what black person invented something?

Answer 1

Benjamin Banneker
(1731-1806) Born into a family of free blacks in Maryland, Banneker learned the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic from his grandmother and a Quaker schoolmaster. Later he taught himself advanced mathematics and astronomy. He is best known for publishing an almanac based on his astronomical calculations.

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
(1856-1931) Williams was born in Pennsylvania and attended medical school in Chicago, where he received his M.D. in 1883. He founded the Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891, and he performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893.

George Washington Carver
(1865?-1943) Born into slavery in Missouri, Carver later earned degrees from Iowa Agricultural College. The director of agricultural research at the Tuskegee Institute from 1896 until his death, Carver developed hundreds of applications for farm products important to the economy of the South, including the peanut, sweet potato, soybean, and pecan.

Charles Henry Turner
(1867-1923) A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Turner received a B.S. (1891) and M.S. (1892) from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. (1907) from the University of Chicago. A noted authority on the behavior of insects, he was the first researcher to prove that insects can hear.

Answer 2

Elijah McCoy (1843–1929) invented an oil-dripping cup for trains.

Lewis Latimer (1848–1928) invented an important part of the light bulb — the carbon filament.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852–1889) invented a shoemaking machine that increased shoemaking speed by 900%!

Granville T. Woods (1856–1910) invented a train-to-station communication system.

George Washington Carver (1860–1943) invented peanut butter and 400 plant products!

Madam C. J. Walker (1867–1919) invented a hair-growing lotion.

Garrett Morgan (1877–1963) invented the gas mask.

Otis Boykin (1920–1982) invented the electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the pacemaker.

Dr. Patricia. E. Bath (1949–) invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see.

Lonnie G. Johnson (1949–) invented the world-famous watergun, the Supersoaker.

Answer 3

Lewis Latimer (1848-1928)
Joseph Lee (1849-1905)
Granville Woods (1856-1910)
Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
George Washington Carver (1865?-1943)
Ernest Just (1883-1941)
William Hinton (1883-1959)
Lloyd Hall (1894-1971)
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
Percy Julian (1899-1975)
Charles Drew (1904-1950)
Flemmie Kitrell (1904-1980)
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (1911-1992)
Henry McBay (1914-1995)
John Edward Hodge (1914-)
Lloyd Noel Ferguson (1918-)
Marie Maynard Daly (1921-)
Emmett Chappelle (1925-)
Juanita Simons Scott (1936-)
Cornelia Denson Gillyard (1941-)
Margaret Tolbert (1943-)
Carolyn Branch Brooks (1946)
Ronald McNair (1950-1986)

Answer 4

All kinds of black people have invented things. George Washington Carver invented over 300 uses for peanuts, for starters.

Answer 5

Its all about pride you muppet. So when the Germans invented Autobahns or the rocket, all Germans were not proud? So Americans were not proud when they landed on the moon? So us British were not proud when we invented the Harrier Jump Jet? Oh no ..it was only the people that did these things celebrated! What a damn stupid question from another stupid American. If you think us whites are so superior , then why are you letting the side down by showing everyone how dumb you are? This site should have an IQ test before membership to stop all low intelligence people from being on here.

Answer 6

Your Avatar is black aren't you?George Washington Carver- try a web site called black inventers AtoZ

Answer 7

My manly man is Ernest Everett Just. lol

He was a utmost Black Scientist, Biologist and Zoologist in South Carolina.

He invented for fertilization and egg development.

Born: 1883 - Death: 1941

Answer 8

A George Alcorn
Nathaniel Alexander
Virgie Ammons
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B Benjamin Banneker
Patricia Bath
Andrew Jackson Beard
Miriam E. Benjamin
Edmond Berger
Henry Blair
Bessie Blount Sarah Boone
Otis Boykin
Charles Brooks
Phil Brooks
Henry Brown
Marie Brown
John Albert Burr

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C George Washington Carver
George Carruthers
Benjamin S. Carson
Emmett W. Chappelle John Christian
Donald Cotton
David Crosthwait

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D Mark Dean
Ronald Demon
Joseph Hunter Dickinson Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
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E Thomas Elkins Philip Emeagwali

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G Sarah E. Goode
Meredith C. Gourdine George Grant
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H Lloyd Augustus Hall


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I-K Augustus Jackson
Thomas L. Jennings
Jack Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Willis Johnson Frederick Jones
Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Percy Lavon Julian
Ernest Everett Just
Roscoe Koontz
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L Lewis Howard Latimer
Joseph Lee John Lee Love

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M Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Elijah McCoy
Alexander Miles Ruth Miro
Garrett Morgan
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N Lyda Newman


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P-Q Alice Parker
Traverse Benjamin Pinn Willam Purvis
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R Lloyd P Ray
Cordell Reed Louis Roberts
Norbert Rillieux

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S Walter Sammons
Henry Sampson
Jerry Shelby
Richard Spikes John Standard
Thomas Stewart
Rufus Stokes

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T Lewis Temple
Valerie Thomas John Henry Thompson
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W-Z Madame Walker
James Edward West
John Thomas White
Doctor Daniel Hale Williams Paul E. Williams
Joseph Winters
Granville Woods
Kevin Woolfolk

More Resources on Black Inventors
Black Inventors - Database
An extensive list of black inventors holding patents listed by name, patent number, and date - hundreds of black inventors listed, however, without the biographical information of the listings above.

Answer 9

Jack Johnson: The world's first African American heavyweight champion, who patented a wrench (U.S.patent#1,413,121) on April the 18th, 1922. He's story is a very interesting one. Ken Burns did a documentary about him with a soundtrack by Miles Davis.

Answer 10

George Washington Carver was an amazing agricultural scientist.