Inventors from Africa
Morris Mbetsa improved vehicle anti-theft devices by developing this SMS-based vehicle security system.
What is Block and Track?
This neurosurgeon was the first to successfully separate conjoined twins attached at the back of the head.
Who is Dr. Ben Carson?
Mark Dean helped to create this device that brought life to the computer screen.
What is the color IBM PC Monitor?
In 1923, Garret Morgan invented this to standardize the rules of the road.
What is the 3-Way traffic light?
Lonnie G. Johnson increased the summer fun with this awesome invention.
What is the Super Soaker?
Richard Turere engineered this automated lighting system to ward of lions attacking his family’s cattle in Kenya.
What is the Lion Light?
Patricia Bath, the first black female physician to receive a medical patent, invented a new device and technique for cataract surgery called this.
What is Laserphaco?
Shirley Ann Jackson developed this technology that allows you to take a call on top of a call.
What is call waiting?
In 1887, Alexander miles developed this elevator enhancement that revolutionized the elevator industry.
What are automatic elevator doors?
George Crum, born to a black father and native American mother, invented this international snack that many cannot live without.
What is the potato chip?
This 14 year old Malawian innovator built a windmill from scraps that provides electricity to a rural Malawi and later built solar powered water pumps.
Who is William Kamkwamba?
Otis Frank Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer that created this heart/life saving implantable device.
What is the pacemaker?
Otis Frank Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer that helped to the develop this technology that was a spring board for all others.
What is the IBM computers?
In 1940, Frederick McKinley Jones invented this which is the spring board for modern day food trucks.
What is the refrigerated truck?
Alfred L. Cralle invented this delicious cold treat.
What is ice cream?
Ludwick Marichane of South Africa developed this world’s first bath-substituting gel which has improved the lives of those without access to fresh/clean water.
What is the Dry Bath?
We have to thank this person for developing a way to separate blood from plasma and developing the first blood bank around WWII.
Who is Charles Drew?
Mary Van Brittan Brown created this system in 1966, putting our mind at ease when away from home.
What is the home security system?
Frederick Jones used this invention to keep the wounded soldiers cool during WWII.
What is the field hospital cooling system?
Alice H. Parker changed the way we stay warm in the winter with this invention.
What is the gas heating furnace?
This computer scientist won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for a computing application using novel mathematical formulation and implementation.
Who is Philip Emeagwali?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was the first ever to perform this surgery in 1893.
What is open heart surgery?
Shirley Ann Jackson developed this technology that allows you to I.D. whether to take a call.
What is caller ID?
Thomas W. Stewart kept us off our hands and knees with this 1893 invention.
What is the modern day mop?
You have this inventor to thank for the golf tee.
Who is Dr. George Grant?