This week's open threads have focused on the lesser known inventors and scientists in the black community. Meredith Gourdine Dr. Meredith Gourdine was born in Newark New Jersey on September 26, 1929, and grew up in the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn. Meredith Gourdine attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black Firsts, Inventors and Scientists
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Tuesday Open Thread: Black First, Inventors and Scientists
Continuing on with this week's open thread theme, I am going to highlight two more black innovators. Joseph Winters (1859–1934) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who patented a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder for the city of Chambersburg, PA. in 1878. It is often falsely cited that Winters was the original inventor of the wagon mounted fire escape. Winters' … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black First, Inventors and Scientists