Black Men Inventions
Michael Harney helps you see in darkness with a specific type of light device. This is used mostly during storms or camping. (It's not your first thought :) )
What is a lantern ?
Alice H. Parker from Morristown, NJ invented this item in 1919. It keeps you warm in the cold, and is usually in the basement.
What is a heating furnace?
Granville T Woods invented this amusement park hit that sends people screaming in excitement.
What is the Rollercoaster?
Alexander Miles patented this tool that brings you from one floor to another, especially in hotels and apartment buildings.
What is the Elevator?
Robert Flemming Jr. invented this common stringed musical instrument.
What is the Guitar?
Samuel Scottron helps you hold a specific material cloth up in front of a big glass square in nearly any and every building.
Marie Brown helps you sleep at night with her invention made in 1966. It lets you know who's at your door.
What is the home security system?
J. F. Pickering created this item that you can see in the air, especially at the shore, that displays messages to large groups of people below.
What is the Blimp?
John L Love made this item is used commonly in schools. Teachers as well as students need this item to keep their utensils working.
What is the Pencil Sharpener?
Made by enslaved Africans in the Appalachia area, this stringed instrument was the foundation for many genres of American music.
What is the Banjo?
W.A Martin helps you feel secured in your home, car, or any space with this invention to know you wont be murdered or robbed.
What is a lock?
Lyda Newman invented this tool for African American hair in 1898.
What is the durable hairbrush? *The bristles were synthetic instead of made from animal hair*
Joseph N. Jackson made this object that changed the gaming world and how advanced people can play.
What is the Programmable Remote Control?
A.L. Lewis created this item that is used on cars, in houses, and buildings to clean glass and leave a shine.
What is Window Cleaner?
This genre of jazz music, invented by African Americans is identified by it's sad lyrics, and deep instrumental sound, filled with lots of soul.
What is Blues?
Augustus Jackson's invention melts in the summer if not eaten right away on a sunny day and freeze when in the cold.
What is icecream?
Sarah E. Goode, the first Black woman granted a patent in the US, made this invention to be able to fit in small homes in 1884.
What is the folding cabinet bed?
Frederick M. Jones created this cooling unit that makes summers bearable.
What is the Air Conditioner?
Garett Morgan invented this object that lights up, telling which cars to go and stop. Today, they are long lights of gree, red, and yellow.
What is the Traffic Signal?
George W. Johnson, found singing in the streets in the late 1800's, was the first African American to...
What is Record Commercially by a Recording Agent?
If you don't have Frederick Jones invention apart of your refrigerator appliance your food will spoil.
What are refrigeration controls ?
Patricia Bath helped design this surgery to correct vision.
What is Laser Cataract Surgery?
Jones and Long invented these little items that keeps your drink inside the bottle.
What are Bottle Caps?
G. T. Sampson created this object that is commonly in laundromats and makes your clothes nice and toasty.
What is the Clothes Drier?
Joseph Dickinson invented two important inventions:
1. without this piece, records would not be scratched and could not be played.
2. Common musical instrument, typically black and white, operated by little hammers on the inside striking metal bars.
What is the Arm on a Record Player?
What is a Player Piano?