{"id":164276,"date":"2010-01-11T03:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1042905"},"modified":"2010-01-11T03:10:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:10:01","slug":"black-african-inventors-and-their-contribution-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164276","title":{"rendered":"Black African Inventors and their contribution to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
Like many I was ignorant about the history of black inventors. Until I began to investigate for myself and their are many African inventors from around the world so many of course I get put them all in this thread lets just say it’s a list of black inventors names from A-Z and the list is still growing to this present day.<\/p>\n

Elijah McCoy<\/i><\/b>
\nThe inventor was born in 1843, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada. His parents were former slaves, George and Mildred McCoy. At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy served a mechanical engineering apprenticeship in Edinburgh, Scotland. Afterwards, he returned to Michigan to pursue a position in his field. However, the only job he found was that of a locomotive fireman and oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad. The fireman on a train was responsible for fueling the steam engine and the oiler lubricated the engine’s moving parts as well as the train’s axles and bearings. Because of his training, he was able to identify and solve the problems of engine lubrication and overheating. At that time, trains needed to periodically stop and be lubricated, to prevent overheating. Elijah McCoy developed a lubricator for steam engines that did not require the train to stop. His lubricator used steam pressure to pump oil wherever it was needed and his lubricate was used all the way into the 20th century. The saying the real McCoy, meaning the real thing, has in some cases been erroneously accredited to Elijah’s invention. The theory is that railroad engineers looking to avoid inferior copies would inquire if a locomotive was fitted with "the real McCoy".[4] The original publication of this claim can be traced to a 1985 pamphlet printed by the Empak Publishing Company, who could not explain how they developed the theory.[5] Other earlier origins to the phrase are unanimously accepted by the writing community and The noted African American inventor, Elijah McCoy was issued more than 57 patents for his inventions during his lifetime. <\/i><\/p>\n

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George Washington Carver<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The identity of Carver’s father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. America’s economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture during this era making Carver’s achievements very significant. Decades of growing only cotton and tobacco had depleted the soils of the southern area of the United States of America. The economy of the farming south had been devastated by years of civil war and the fact that the cotton and tobacco plantations could no longer (ab)use slave labor. Carver saves the south the very people who enslaved his people and kidnapped him and his mother. Carver convinced the southern farmers to follow his suggestions and helped the region to recover.<\/p>\n

Carver also worked at developing industrial applications from agricultural crops. During World War I, he found a way to replace the textile dyes formerly imported from Europe. He produced dyes of 500 different shades of dye and he was responsible for the invention in 1927 of a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans. For that he received three separate patents.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nNigerian born Dr. Philip Emeagwali<\/b> first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers. He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing achievements only surpassed by an even more amazing life.<\/p>\n

NASA engineer, Jerry Shelby <\/b>invented an engine protection system for recoverable rocket booster and received U.S. patent # 5,328,132 on July 12, 1994. Jerry Shelby rocket booster’s purpose is to propel an associated space vehicle to at least a desired first stage of travel. Shelby designed a rocket booster with improved protection for the purpose of making it reusable. Boosters fall back to earth after giving a space vehicle its boost into space.<\/p>\n

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\nAprille Ericsson Jackson<\/i><\/b>
\nBorn in Brooklyn, NY.
\nEducation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. in Aeronautical\/Astronautical Engineering; Howard University, Master of Engineering, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace option.<\/p>\n

Career<\/p>\n

Goddard Space Flight Center, engineer; Howard University, instructor; Bowie State University, instructor; lecturer.<\/p>\n

While attending M.I.T., she was involved in several prestigious and important research projects. One of these projects, at the Applied Psychics Laboratory, allowed Ericsson-Jackson to assist in developing a fiber optic laser gyroscope, while a project at the Space Systems Laboratory involved creating a database for EVA neutral buoyancy data that was calculated at the NASA Johnson Space Center. For her Senior Project, Ericsson-Jackson researched Manned Mars Mission crew systems for interplanetary vehicles.<\/p>\n

After graduating from M.I.T., Ericsson-Jackson decided to continue her education at Howard University in Washington, D.C. There she was awarded a Master of Engineering degree and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace option. Ericsson-Jackson’s research objective while attending Howard University was to develop practical design procedures for future orbiting space structures, such as the Space Station, that could be used along with optimal digital controllers. To fund this research Ericsson-Jackson received several fellowships and grants from many prestigious sponsors, including the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Coop, the NASA Center for Studies of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres, the Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratories, the Dorothy Danford Compton Dissertation, the NASA DC Space Grant Consortium, Patricia Roberts Harris, and the Pacific Telesis Foundation.<\/i><\/p>\n

This guy didn’t invent anything great I just like the story anything to do with a creative person and entrepreneurship I really love this kind of stuff.
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