This week's open thread highlighted some lesser known black inventors. Today I am going to highlight several inventors. In Chester, New Hampshire George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910) was the first African American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee. He was born on September 15, … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: More Black Scientists and Inventors
More Black Scientists and Inventors
Thursday Open Thread: More Black Scientists and Inventors
James Edward Maceo West (born February 10, 1931 in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia) is an American inventor and acoustician. Along with Gerhard Sessler, West developed the foil electret microphone in 1962 while developing instruments for human hearing research. Nearly 90 percent of the more than two billion microphones produced annually are based on the principles of … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: More Black Scientists and Inventors
Wednesday Open Thread: More Black Scientists and Inventors
Although he didn’t invent Crest toothpaste, he dramatically improved the Crest formula for protecting our teeth so we can smile in all those selfies being taken nowadays. Smitherman’s distinguished career as an inventor at Proctor & Gamble, the parent company of Crest, is impressive by itself. But it’s even more impressive when set within the longer legacy of black … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: More Black Scientists and Inventors