African American Inventors Assignment

This Kentuckian created an early version of the gas mask:

• Alexander Miles

• George Washington Carver

• Garrett Morgan

• Benjamin Banneker

This individual created an early version of a home security system:

• Mary Van Brittan Brown

• Mark Dean

• Otis Boykin

• Dr. Shirley Jackson

This famous scientist created inventions such as ultraviolet camera and the spectrograph that would be used by Nasa in 1972 Apollo 16 flight:

• Mark Dean

• George Carruthers

• George Edwards Alcorn Jr.

• Lonnie G. Johnson

This inventor created a control unit for a pacemaker which helps the heart beat normally, and created resistors which were used by IBM for missiles and for televisions:

• Granville T. Woods

• George Washington Carver

• Elijah McCoy

• Otis Boykin

This inventor made electric lighting more practical and affordable as well as drafted the drawings for the first telephone:

• Lewis Lattimer

• Dr. Charles Richard Drew

• Dr. Patricia Bath

• Sarah E. Goode

This inventor is self educated and is most widely known for their series of almanacks that contained astronomical calculations as well as they helped survey Washington D.C.:

• Dr. Shirley Jackson

• Benjamin Banneker

• Lonnie G. Johnson

• James E. West

Cellphones, laptops, baby monitors, all have microphones that derive from this inventors invention of a highly sensitive microphone:

• James E. West

• Madame C.J. Walker

• Jan Ernst Matzeliger

• Lonnie G. Johnson

This African American inventor helped create video game cartridges as well as an early coin operated arcade game:

• Gerald A. Lawson

• Fredrick McKinley Jones

• Percy Julian

• George Carruthers

This individual helped improve the ironing board, narrowing it making it easier to iron garments, especially womens clothing:

• Sarah Boone

• Dr. Patricia Bath

• Madame C.J. Walker

• Jan Ernst Matzeliger

This inventor helped make trains faster and more efficient by creating an automatic lubricator to spread oil evenly over a trains engine:

• George Washington Carver

• Otis Boykin

• Mark Dean

• Elijah McCoy