Life Saving Inventions
Who made elevators safer by inventing automatic doors?
Alexander Miles
Who invented the three-position traffic light system?
Garrett Morgan
Who developed portable refrigeration for trucks?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Who invented a way for trains to communicate while moving?
Granville Woods
Who made the light bulb last longer by inventing a carbon filament?
Lewis Latimer
Charles Drew helped create what medical system?
Blood banks
What safety invention did Garrett Morgan use to save workers in a tunnel accident?
Gas mask or safety hood
What does Jones’s invention help keep cold during transport?
Food and medicine
Gladys West made GPS technology possible. What does GPS technology make possible for us?
Helps people find locations and directions
Who usually gets credit for the light bulb even though Latimer improved it?
Thomas Edison
This inventor created a laser device to remove cataracts and restore vision
Patricia Bath
Which inventor helped make GPS technology possible?
Gladys West
Who developed over 300 uses for peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Which two inventions did Granville Woods help improve?
Telegraph and telephone
Why was Lewis Latimer’s invention important?
It made electric light practical because light bulbs lasted much longer
Patricia Bath’s invention helped fix this medical problem
Blindness caused by cataracts
What invention stops elevator doors from opening at the wrong time?
Automatic elevator doors
What farming method did George Washington Carver teach to protect soil?
Crop rotation
Why was Granville Woods often taken to court?
People tried to steal his inventions
Which inventor had to pretend to be an assistant because he was Black?
Garrett Morgan
This inventor helped make pacemakers work reliably inside the human body
Otis Boykin
These type of models from Gladys West are still used when you use Google Maps or a GPS app
Math models
Why was Carver’s work important for farmers?
It helped them grow food and make money
What modern systems use Woods’s ideas today?
Trains, subways, and communication systems
Why were many Black inventors not taught in textbooks?
Their contributions were erased or ignored