Amazing African-American Inventors - E-book - ePub

It may come as a great surprise to many to learn that African Americans or black Americans are responsible for thousands of inventions that make life so much easier in the United States of America. These include inventions such as the three-light traffic signal, refrigerated trucks, automatic elevator doors, color monitors for desktop computers, pace makers for the heart, blood banks, laser treatments for cataracts, home security surveillance systems, and much more.
This enlightening book highlights the vital contributions of 20 amazing and brilliant African-American men and women whose inventions have helped revolutionized our world for the better.  People such as Alexander Miles, Alice Ball, Benjamin Banneker, Bessie Virginia Blount, Charles Drew, Elijah McCoy, Frederick McKinley Jones, Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Gladys West, Granville T. Woods, Henry Blair, Lewis Howard Latimer, Madam C.
J. Walker, Marian Croak, Mark Dean, Mary van Britton Brown, Otis Boykin, Patricia Bath, and Shirley Jackson.