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

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

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Two NC Black men, the late Sanford Thurman and Vincent Spaulding , came close to making it big with their inventions.

The inventor behind a revolutionary energy technology breakthrough: A true all solid-state battery that is safer, cheaper, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 patent-pending invention solves the problem of black water disposal contamination issues with two valves. In doing so, it resolves issues with leakage from sewage. As a result, it provides a ...