Running a business or creating something that hasn’t ever been made are no easy feats, yet Black women continue to lead the ...

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Learn more about the 10 Black women whose influential inventions have moved the world forward since the 1880s.

In 1980, NASA employee Valerie Thomas invented the Illusion transmitter. This device used concave mirrors to create images that appear to be real, or in front of a mirror itself. This technology ...

Inventions by African Americans into the 21st century include everything from toys to physics to aerospace technology. John KingJohn King worked with the aerospace and safety industries. He ...

Woods, a Black inventor from Columbus. This rendering shows a park that could be created to house the trolley, A Columbus nonprofit and museum is hoping to highlight the accomplishments of native son ...

Sarah Boone, an African-American inventor, improved the ironing board in 1882, making it easier to press garments. Its design is still used in homes today. Thanks to Kyndall Hudson, a junior at ...