African+American+Inventors



**African American Technological Contributions: Past, Present and Future**rfrom the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) discusses the following Black inventors, among others
 * Benjamin Banneker
 * Thomas L. Jennings
 * Henry Blair
 * Norbert Rillieux
 * Elijah McCoy
 * Garrett Morgan
 * Jan Matzeliger
 * Granville Woods

What Color is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld (2013)

Black Inventors from Engines of Our Ingenuity, University of Houston

14 Famous African American Inventors from Scholastic
 * Includes Alexander Miles, Lewis Latimer, George Washington Carver, Madame C J Walker

African American Inventors I, National Geographic (January 2011)


 * In Celebration of Black History from United States Patent and Trademark Office **
 * **Thomas L. Jennings was the first African American man to receive a patent for dry-cleaning process (1821)**
 * A Tribute to America's First African American Patent HolderA Tribute to America's First African American Patent Holder
 * **Judy W. Reed was the first African American woman to receive a patent for a machine kneading and rolling dough (1884) **



Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) from Brookhaven National Laboratory Benjamin Banneker Was Born, November 9, 1731 from America's Story, Library of Congress

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Benjamin Banneker's Almanac, PBS Africans in America

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">His Story: A Man of Many Firsts, from the Administrators of the Benjamin Banneker Memorial



Elijah McCoy:

The First Patent of Elijah McCoy, a Turn-of-the-Century Black Inventor

Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines (1872) was Elijah McCoy's first patent

George Washington Carver from State Historical Society of Missouri

George Washington Carver from National Peanut Board. Dr. Carver researched more than 300 uses of peanuts

George Washington Carver Coloring and Activity Book, U. S. Department of Agriculture

Granville T. Woods from African Americans in the Science, University of California Irvine

Granville T. Woods, Ohio History Central

Granville T. Woods from Brooklyn Historic Railway Association

Woods invented the third rail for electric railroad cars


 * Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855- 1905)**
 * Believed to be the first African American woman to receive a patent (July 14, 1885) for a folding cabinet bed


 * Inventor Profiles: Sarah E. Goode and Garret Morgan, from Berkshire Museum**

Sarah E. Goode from Clara Barton Museum

Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy in Chicago