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a chef and restaurateur is said to have unintentionally created the potato chip during the summer of 1853. They were made in response to a customer who sent back their fried potatoes after complaining they were too thick.
George Crum
Accumulated nearly 60 patents during his lifetime, many of which improved the functioning of railroads. His most notable are the induction telegraph system, which allowed traveling trains to communicate with one another while also allowing dispatchers to locate them, and the first electricity-powered railway.
Granville Woods
the man famous for giving us peanut butter and much more. As an agricultural chemist, in an effort to increase the profitability of sweet potatoes and peanuts, Carver began conducting experiments in 1896 and created 518 new products from the crops. They include ink, dye, soap, cosmetics, flour, vinegar, and synthetic rubber.
George Washington Carver
first African American woman to become a self-made millionaire after creating a line of hair products geared toward Black hair.
Madam C.J. Walker
designs have saved thousands of lives since their invention. Take his traffic signal, which he patented in 1922. It was the first to offer a third “caution” signal, which we now know as the yellow light. And in 1912, Morgan received a patent for his “Breathing Device,” which was one of the earliest versions of a gas mask.
Garrett Morgan
transformed the way people around the world hear and transmit sound by co-inventing the foil electret microphone in 1962
James West