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Who invented the gas mask and the traffic light?

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Garrett Morgan

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Who invented the pencil? Sharpener

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John love

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Who prepared the drawings for the telephone patented by Alexander Graham Bell?

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Lewis Latimer

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Who invented the dustpan

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L.P. Ray

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Who invented the ironing board?

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Sarah Boone

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Who invented the mailbox?

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P.B. Downing

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Who created the electrical railway brake that allowed trains to stop safely?

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Granville woods

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Who invented the thermostat?

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Frederick Jones

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Who developed the multiple barrel machine gun?

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Richard spikes

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Who invented the clothes dryer?

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Gt Samson

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Who invented the first elevator?

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Alexander miles

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Who invented the hearing aid?

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Harry Hopkins

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Who invented the golf tee?

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George Grant

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Who invented the low fuel helicopter engine

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Joseph Logan

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Who invented the potato chip

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George crum

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Who invented the spark plug

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Edmond Berger

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Who invented the super soaker water gun?

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Lonnie Johnson

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Who invented the toaster?

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Ruane Sharon Jeter

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Who used math to predict the eclipse of the Sun in 1789?

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Benjamin Banneker

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Who invented the lawn mower?

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J.A. Burr

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Who received a patent for ice cream?

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Augusta Jackson

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Who was the first black member of the national academy of science?

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David Blackwell

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Who founded Provident Hospital and Training Institution in Chicago, the first black hospital run exclusively by African Americans

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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

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Who was the first African American astronaut launched into space?

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Dr. Guion bluford

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Who was the first woman in the first African American to be named the US surgeon general?
Dr. Jocelyn elders
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Who was the first person to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head?
Dr. Ben Carson
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Who invented the shoe lasting machine?
Jan E. Matzeliger
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Who created numerous products derived from peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes historians regard him as a scientist who revolutionized Southern agriculture.
George Washington Carver
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Who invented lubrication systems for steam engines?
Elijah McCoy
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Who is credited with finding and establishing the city of Chicago?
Jean-Baptiste Pointe did Sable
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Who were the black soldiers trained to become pilots in world war II, mostly assigned to Italy where they escorted bombers and destroyed enemy planes?
Tuskegee airmen
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Who invented an inexpensive method of refining sugar?
Norbert Rilleux
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What is the name of the first all-black medical school?
Meharry medical college
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Who was the first African-American woman to be awarded a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts institution of technology?
Shirley Jackson
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Who received a patent for ice cream?
Augusta Jackson
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Who received a patent for a corn sheller
Rufus Weaver
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Who received a patent for a stair climbing wheelchair?
Rufus Weaver
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Who received a patent for an airplane propeller?
James Adams
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Who was the first black female dentist licensed to practice in the US?
Ida gray
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Who created a refrigeration system for trucks?
Frederick Jones
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Who is known as the "baby doctor" because she delivered more than 7,000 babies
Justina Ford
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Who was the first African American female Neurosurgeon
Alexa Canady
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Who received a patent for a morticians table
Leander Coles
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Who received a patent for a machine to knead dough?
Joseph Lee
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Who was the first black director of the centers for disease control?
David stacher
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Who was the founder of Provident Hospital
Daniel Hale Williams
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Who was the first black commander of a NASA space shuttle?
Frederick Drew Gregory
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Who was the first black female in the US to have a commercial pilot's license?
Willa Brown
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What is the name of the first black-owned Hospital in the United States?
Provident Hospital
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Who obtained her pilot's license from France because no flight school in the US would give her lessons
Bessie Coleman
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Who was the first black NASA astronaut to walk in space?
Bernard Harris
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Who invented the seed and cotton planter?
Henry Blair
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Who was the first African American pilot in the US?
Emery Malick
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What was Garrett Morgan's first invention?
The human hair straightener
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Who was the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia
Eliza Greer
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Who is actually the first person arrested for resisting to follow the bus segregation law?
Claudette colvin
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Who is the first African-American woman to hold a patent for a software invention?
Janet Emerson bashion
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Who developed the first successful blood bank?
Charles Dew
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Who has a patent for the first ever home security system?
Mary van Britton Brown
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Who invented the first practical typewriter?
Newman marshman
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Who was the first black professor of medicine in the United States?
Dr. Alexander Augusta
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Who is known for the invention of a durable hairbrush with synthetic bristles?
Lyda Newman
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Who invented a device that improved the coupling of railroad cars?
Tj Byrd
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Who was the first black female awarded an MD (medical doctorate) degree?
Rebecca Lee crumpler
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Who was the first black female astronaut?
Dr. May jemison
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Who was the first African American Arctic explorer that co- discovered the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
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Who invented the adding machine?
Shelby Davidson
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Who invented the convertible (car) top?
James Jones

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