Joseph Winters

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