Janet Emerson Bashen (born February 12, 1957) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business consultant. She patented a software program, LinkLIne, to assist with web-based Equal Employment Opportunity investigations making her the first African American woman to obtain a software patent. She founded a human resource consulting firm focusing on Equal Opportunity Employment … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
African-American Innovators
Friday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Marie Van Brittan Brown (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999) was an African-American inventor. She was the inventor of the home security system (U.S. Patent 3,482,037) in 1966, along with her husband Albert Brown. In the same year, they jointly applied for a patent, which was granted in 1969. Brown was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York;[ she died there at the age of 76. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Thursday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Andrew Jackson Beard (1849–1921) was an African American inventor. He invented the first automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) is an American inventor and computer engineer. He was part of the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip.[ He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. In August 2011, writing in his blog, Dean stated that he now … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Tuesday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Thomas L. Jennings (1791 – February 12, 1856) was an African-American tradesman and abolitionist in New York City, New York. He operated and owned a tailoring business. In 1821 he was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent for his method of dry cleaning, With the proceeds of his invention he bought his wife and children’s freedom then continued his civil … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African-American Innovators