Garrett Morgan
Madame C.J. Walker
Mark Dean
Historical Inventors and Innovators
Modern Inventors and Innovators
100
Garrett Morgan's first patent was for a hair-straightening cream he formulated while owning a repair shop for this machine that connects fabric.
What is a sewing machine?
100
If you wanted to buy Madame C.J. Walker's products today, your best bet is Ulta, Sally's, or Costcutters.
What are hair care products?
100
John Deere would be proud of a young Mark Dean, who built one of these from scratch with some help from his father.
What is a tractor?
100
Peanut butter was invented by this agriculturalist.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
While designing jet propulsion devices for NASA, Lonnie Johnson also designed this brand of summer water toys.
What is Super Soaker?
200
Morgan's first major invention was designed to protect these public servants while putting out flames.
What are firefighters?
200
Madame Walker is often given credit for being the first self-made, female Fatcat with seven figures in her bank account when she died in 1919.
What is a millionaire?
200
Mark Dean is Ms. Karas' hero. He was the co-creator of the personal computer, also known as this acronym.
What is a PC?
200
Be them crisps or chips, this favorite snack was invented by accident by George Crum due to a Karen complaining about the thickness of their fried potatoes.
What is the potato chip?
200
Frederick McKinley Jones patented designs for food transport with this anti-spoilage process that keeps food fresh from farm to table.
What is refrigeration?
300
Green means go, go, go. Yellow means slow, slow, slow. Red means stop! Morgan invented the first of these.
What is a traffic light?
300
Hair care for black women used to be quite the nightmare, making it ironic that Madame Walker's formula came to her while sleeping.
What is a dream?
300
Dean helped develop computers to allow these devices to exist as they do now, be them corded, cordless with a dongle, or bluetooth.
What are peripherals?
300
This home staple is a combined effort of Elijah McCoy and Sarah Boone.
What is a portable ironing board?
300
Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, Skype and Discord are a type of program that exists because of the work of Marian Croak and her team at AT&T.
What are VoIPs?
400
Morgan and three others started a third rescue attempt using his smoke hoods to save people trapped in a tunnel under this "E" Great Lake.
What is Lake Erie?
400
What is the YMCA?
400
TV went color in 1954. These went color thirty years later in 1984 thanks to Mark Dean.
What is a monitor?
400
A fall to your death was a risk on elevators until Alexander Miles invented doors that are this instead of manual.
What is automatic?
400
In 1966, Marie van Brittan Brown's design for this used a camera, a two-way microphone, peepholes, and monitors. Ring and ADT applaud her.
What is home security systems?
500
Extra! Extra! The Cleveland Call and Post put all the news to print in this early form of paper and ink communication.
What is a newspaper?
500
In 2018, this streaming service announced they would be producing an 8-episode series about Madame Walker and starring Octavia Spencer from The Help and Hidden Figures.
What is Netflix?
500
If you like your 60+ FPS, you better salute Mark Dean. He lead the team that designed the first 1 GHz hardware that led to today's 5-6 GHz ones.
What is a processor chip?
500
Alice Parker patented the design that led to the modern home system that keeps your home cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
What is HVAC?
500
Dr. Patricia Bath developed the Laserphaco Probe in 1986 to help treat this condition of the eye that is usually the result of aging due to proteins breaking down and creating cloudy regions in the lens.
What are cataracts?