Elijah McCoy: “The Real McCoy”
Elijah McCoy was a pioneering Black Canadian‑American mechanical engineer and inventor whose automatic lubricator transformed steam power and became synonymous with the idea of “the...
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William A. Hinton: The first African American to author a medical textbook
William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to publish an academic textbook. As a bacteriologist,...
Emmett Chappelle: The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame African-American Biochemist whose discovery led to a potential method of detecting life on other planet
Emmett Chappelle is an African American scientist who has made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry. Chappelle is the recipient...
Henry Blair: 2nd Black inventor issued a patent by the U.S. Patent Office
Henry Blair was the second documented African-American inventor to be issued a patent by the United States Patent Office. Born in 1807, Blair received his...
David Nelson Crosthwait Jr.: Inventor and leader in electrical and mechanical engineering
[dropcap size=small]D[/dropcap]avid Nelson Crosthwait Jr. was an African American electrical and mechanical engineer and one of the leaders in the United States in the field...
John Lee Love: Inventor of the portable pencil sharpener
John Lee Love was an African American inventor best known for patenting a portable pencil sharpener, widely known as the “Love Sharpener.” Very little is...
Jerry Lawson: Inventor of the video game cartridge
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t...
Patricia E. Bath: World-famous Ophthalmologist
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also the first Black woman doctor to receive...
Lonnie Johnson: Inventor of the Super Soaker water gun
Lonnie George Johnson is an African American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is best known for inventing the Super Soaker...
George Robert Carruthers: Inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and spectrograph
George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His invention was first flown on sounding rockets...