STEM/Inventions Flashcards
Who invented the gas mask and the traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
Who invented the pencil? Sharpener
John love
Who prepared the drawings for the telephone patented by Alexander Graham Bell?
Lewis Latimer
Who invented the dustpan
L.P. Ray
Who invented the ironing board?
Sarah Boone
Who invented the mailbox?
P.B. Downing
Who created the electrical railway brake that allowed trains to stop safely?
Granville woods
Who invented the thermostat?
Frederick Jones
Who developed the multiple barrel machine gun?
Richard spikes
Who invented the clothes dryer?
Gt Samson
Who invented the first elevator?
Alexander miles
Who invented the hearing aid?
Harry Hopkins
Who invented the golf tee?
George Grant
Who invented the low fuel helicopter engine
Joseph Logan
Who invented the potato chip
George crum
Who invented the spark plug
Edmond Berger
Who invented the super soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
Who invented the toaster?
Ruane Sharon Jeter
Who used math to predict the eclipse of the Sun in 1789?
Benjamin Banneker
Who invented the lawn mower?
J.A. Burr
Who received a patent for ice cream?
Augusta Jackson
Who was the first black member of the national academy of science?
David Blackwell
Who founded Provident Hospital and Training Institution in Chicago, the first black hospital run exclusively by African Americans
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Who was the first African American astronaut launched into space?
Dr. Guion bluford
Who was the first woman in the first African American to be named the US surgeon general?
Dr. Jocelyn elders
Who was the first person to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head?
Dr. Ben Carson
Who invented the shoe lasting machine?
Jan E. Matzeliger
Who created numerous products derived from peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes historians regard him as a scientist who revolutionized Southern agriculture.
George Washington Carver
Who invented lubrication systems for steam engines?
Elijah McCoy
Who is credited with finding and establishing the city of Chicago?
Jean-Baptiste Pointe did Sable
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
Who invented an inexpensive method of refining sugar?
Norbert Rilleux
What is the name of the first all-black medical school?
Meharry medical college
Who was the first African-American woman to be awarded a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts institution of technology?
Shirley Jackson
Who received a patent for ice cream?
Augusta Jackson
Who received a patent for a corn sheller
Rufus Weaver
Who received a patent for a stair climbing wheelchair?
Rufus Weaver
Who received a patent for an airplane propeller?
James Adams
Who was the first black female dentist licensed to practice in the US?
Ida gray
Who created a refrigeration system for trucks?
Frederick Jones
Who is known as the “baby doctor” because she delivered more than 7,000 babies
Justina Ford
Who was the first African American female Neurosurgeon
Alexa Canady
Who received a patent for a morticians table
Leander Coles
Who received a patent for a machine to knead dough?
Joseph Lee
Who was the first black director of the centers for disease control?
David stacher
Who was the founder of Provident Hospital
Daniel Hale Williams
Who was the first black commander of a NASA space shuttle?
Frederick Drew Gregory
Who was the first black female in the US to have a commercial pilot’s license?
Willa Brown
What is the name of the first black-owned Hospital in the United States?
Provident Hospital
Who obtained her pilot’s license from France because no flight school in the US would give her lessons
Bessie Coleman
Who was the first black NASA astronaut to walk in space?
Bernard Harris
Who invented the seed and cotton planter?
Henry Blair
Who was the first African American pilot in the US?
Emery Malick
What was Garrett Morgan’s first invention?
The human hair straightener
Who was the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia
Eliza Greer
Who is actually the first person arrested for resisting to follow the bus segregation law?
Claudette colvin
Who is the first African-American woman to hold a patent for a
software invention?
Janet Emerson bashion
Who developed the first successful blood bank?
Charles Dew
Who has a patent for the first ever home security system?
Mary van Britton Brown
Who invented the first practical typewriter?
Newman marshman
Who was the first black professor of medicine in the United States?
Dr. Alexander Augusta
Who is known for the invention of a durable hairbrush with synthetic bristles?
Lyda Newman
Who invented a device that improved the coupling of railroad cars?
Tj Byrd
Who was the first black female awarded an MD (medical doctorate) degree?
Rebecca Lee crumpler
Who was the first black female astronaut?
Dr. May jemison
Who was the first African American Arctic explorer that co- discovered the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
Who invented the adding machine?
Shelby Davidson
Who invented the convertible (car) top?
James Jones
