This is only a short list of black inventors...didn't want to take up too much space...
Patricia Bath
The first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
Andrew Jackson Beard
Beard received a patent for a railroad car coupler and a rotary engine.Andrew Jackson Beard - Patents
The original patent drawings of Andrew Jackson Beard.
Miriam E. Benjamin
Benjamin was the second black woman in history to receive a patent. She received a patent for an invention she called 'a Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels.'
Henry Blair
Henry Blair was the second black inventor in history to be issued a patent by the United States Patent Office.
Bessie Blount
Blount invented a device to help disabled persons eat.
Sarah Boone
An improvement to the ironing board (U.S. Patent #473,653) was invented by African American Sarah Boone on April 26, 1892.
Otis Boykin
Boykin invented an improved 'Electrical Resistor' used in computers, radios, television sets and a variety of electronic devices.
Charles Brooks
C. B. Brooks invented a street sweeper truck for which he was issued a patent on March 17, 1896.Phil Brooks
Black inventor, Phil Brooks patented a disposable syringe.
Henry Brown
Henry Brown patented a "receptacle for storing and preserving papers on November 2, 1886" It was special in that it kept the papers separated. Perhaps an early forerunner in filofax history?
Marie Brown
Invented a video home survelance security system.J
ohn Albert Burr
Patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower.
George Washington Carver
Agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver invented three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes. More than anyone else in history.
George Washington Carver - Help for the Hard Times - Pamphlet
George Washington Carver wrote the pamphlet Help for the Hard Times
George Carruthers
Carruthers was the black inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and the spectrograph.
* Understand something though, before you come in here saying (ahem, typing
... "Oh those are lies!" , just because these black inventors did what they did, it dosen't mean that that's what EVERY black person was meant to do. We all have different purposes in life...and I'm not talking about what evil blacks do. I'm talking about those who are part of the solution.*