 Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood (a predecessor to the gas mask |  African American inventor William H. Richardson patented an improvement to the baby carriage in the United States on June 18, 1889. It is U.S. patent number 405,600 |
 George Edward Alcorn Jr. (born March 22, 1940) is an American physicist, engineer, inventor, and distinguished professor. He invented the X-ray spectrometer, which earned him the NASA–Goddard Space Flight Center award for Inventor of the Year in 1984 |   Robert F. Flemming, Jr, Born 1857 lived till 94years, Mississippi African-American. The guitar was invented by Robert Flemming, Jr on March 3rd 1886. He wanted a different sound in music and that was what inspired him to create the guitar. |
 Benjamin Banneker was a black American who is best-known for his Astronomical Almanac. |  In 1968, Rufus J Weaver (1927-2008), one of the very few African American men from Kentucky to serve on a Navy submarine during World War II, also patented a design for a stair-climbing wheelchair. |
 Alice H. Parker invented a furnace powered by natural gas. Her goal was to offer a central heating solution that was more efficient than wood or coal. She received Patent 1,325,905 for her invention in December 1919, inventing the first Central Heating Unit. |   George T. Sampson was an African-American inventor best known for his early patent of the automatic clothes dryer in 1892 |
 Rufus Weaver lived in New London, CT. In 1968, he invented a stair–climbing wheelchair, U.S. patent #3,411,598. |   Frederick McKinley Jones is the inventor of the refrigeration unit. He invented the first portable air-cooling unit, also referred to as the refrigeration unit. With his innovations, mobile refrigeration was improved for the long-distance transport of medical supplies, food, and other perishable goods. |
  Mark Dean Is a Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean helped develop a number of landmark technologies for IBM, including the color PC monitor and the first gigahertz chip. He holds three of the company’s original nine patents |   Ninety percent of microphones used today are based on the ingenuity of James Edward West, an African-American inventor born in 1931 in Prince Edwards County, VA. |
 American. Citizenship, USA. Engineering career. Inventor press photo. Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920 – March 26, 1982) was an American inventor and engineer. … Among his other inventions is a burglar–proof cash register, |   Alexander Miles is the 19th Century African-American inventor known best for patenting his design for improving the automatically opening and closing elevator doors. The patent was issued on October 11, 1887 (U.S. Patent 371,207 |
 The patent was for a folding bed that would become the precursor to the Murphy Bed. It was a cabinet bed which folded into a roll-top desk which had compartments for writing supplies and stationary |   On 07/18/1899, African American Leonard C. Bailey patented the folding bed. It was U.S. patent 629 286 |
  Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security system. She is also credited with the invention of the first closed circuit television |   Andrew Beard (African American Inventor an Inductee in the Inventors Hall of Fame), was awarded the Patent for his Rotary Engine Invention (Patent # 478271) |
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