Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1844[2] – October 10, 1929) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer, who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most to do with lubrication of steam engines. Born free in Canada, he returned as a […]
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Anderson Ruffin Abbott
Anderson Ruffin Abbott, M.D. (7 April 1837 – 29 December 1913) was the first Black Canadian to be a licensed physician. His career included participation in the American Civil War and attending the deathbed of Abraham Lincoln. Early life Abbott was born in Toronto as […]
Jacques Bonjawo
Jacques Bonjawo (born 30 December 1960, Yaoundé) is a software engineer, an author and a columnist in the application of technology to sustainable development. Jacques is most noted for his work at Microsoft in 1997–2006 as senior program manager for the MSN […]
Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. […]
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanacauthor and farmer. Family history and early life It is difficult to verify much of Benjamin Banneker’s family history. Some writers have stated that […]
Dr. Philip Emeagwali
Dr. Philip Emeagwali ‘Father of the Internet’ Philip Emeagwali was born on August 23, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria, the son of James Emeagwali, a nurse’s aide, and his 16-year-old wife, Agatha. In April 1967, he […]
Charles R. Drew
Charles Richard Drew (3 June 1904 – 1 April 1950) was an African-American physician, surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to […]
Dr. Mark Dean
Mark E. Dean Computer Inventions (born March 2, 1957) is an inventor and a computer scientist. He holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based. He led the team […]
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (January 1864[1][2] – January 5, 1943), was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he is believed to have been born before slavery was abolished in […]
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Home Security Inventions While home security systems today are more advanced than ever, back in 1966 the idea for a home surveillance device seemed almost unthinkable. That was the year famous African-American inventor Marie Van […]
Otis Boykin
Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920-1982) was an inventor and engineer.[1] Otis Frank Boykin was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a carpenter. He worked as a […]
George Edward Alcorn, Jr
George Edward Alcorn, Jr. (born March 22nd, 1940) is a pioneer African American physicist and inventor for Rockwell International who invented a method of fabricating an imaging X-ray spectrometer. [ Biography He was born on […]
Dr.Patricia Bath
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, Harlem, New York) is an ophthalmologist credited as the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose.[citation needed] Bath received the patent in […]
Ben Carson
Dr. Benjamin S. “Ben” Carson, Sr., M.D. (born September 18, 1951) is an American neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. Background and education Benjamin […]
