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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Two NC Black men, the late Sanford Thurman and Vincent Spaulding , came close to making it big with their inventions.
Learn more about the 10 Black women whose influential inventions have moved the world forward since the 1880s.
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.
A black and white photograph of Frederick McKinley Jones, taken around 1950 with his invention, a refrigerated truck. In every corner of Minnesota, there are good stories waiting to be told of ...
The Rickenbacker Woods Foundation is hoping to use a trolley salvaged from the demolished Spaghetti Warehouse in Franklinton to honor Granville T. Woods, a Black inventor from Columbus. This rendering ...
A popular claim circulating on the internet alleges a forgotten Black inventor named Willie "Tech-Man" Jenkins was largely responsible for the creation of modern drone technology. An Instagram post ...