Patricia Era Bath

Patricia Era Bath

Patricia Era Bath was an African American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. 

Patricia was born on November 4, 1942 in New York, NY.

Patricia  invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery. Her invention was called Laserphaco Probe, which she patented in 1986.

Patricia died on May 30, 2019, at UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Sarah Boone

Sarah Boone was born Sarah Marshall in Craven County, North Carolina near a town called New Vern in February 1832. In November of 25, 1847 she a freed African slave named James Boone (or Boon); they had eight children together.

The Boon family move from North Carolina to New Haven, Connecticut before the American Civil War took place; the Boon family settled down in a house on 30 Winter Street. Sarah’s Husband James worked as a brick mason up to his death in 1874. Sarah worked as a dressmaker in the New Haven directories. In April 26, 1892 she obtained the United States patent rights for her improvements to the ironing board. Sarah designed for the ironing board had improved the quality of ironing sleeves and the bodies of women’s garments. She made the out of wood, with a narrow curve, so the structure allowed the sleeve to fit and reversible so both side could be iron. Sarah Marshall Boone died in 1904; she was laid to rest in a family plot in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.

Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.

Charles Drew

Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an African American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher. Drew was born into an African American middle-class family in Washington, D.C.

Charles‘s father Richard was a chapter layer and his mother Nora Burrell, was a school teacher.  Charles and his siblings grew up in Foggy Bottom neighborhood Washington, D.C. and Charles graduated from Dunbar High School in the year of 1922. Charles won athletics scholarship to attend at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He then graduated from Amherst College in the year 1922. Charles was a great athlete and he also joined a fraternity the Omega Psi Phi.

Charles Richard Drew became first African American to earn a Doctor of Medical Science degree.

In 1939 Drew traveled to Tuskegee, Alabama, were he attend a annual fee clinic at John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital.

In the late 1940 before the World War 2, Drew help set up and administer the early prototype program for blood storage. 

Jan E. Matzeliger

Jan E. Matzeliger (September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889) was an African American/Dutch Guyana. Jan’s father was a Dutch engineer, very wealthy and very well educated and his mother was a black Surinamese slave of his father. Jan had some inserts in mechanics while living in had native his country of Africa. His efforts for inventing the shoe-lasting machine did began until he moved to the United States. Jan worked in a machinery shop after that, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 19 after working as a sailor.

Wallace "Wally" Amos Jr.

Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr. was (born July 1, 1936) in Tallahassee, Florida is an African American TV personality, entrepreneur and author. Wallace is the founder of "Famous Amos" chocolate chip cookie brand. Wallace was the host of a adult reading program call Learn To Read, later on he co-founded the Uncle Wally’s muffins. Wallace now currently resides in Kailua, Hawaii and also Long Island, New York. Wallace founded a Chip & Cookie gourmet cookies brand and stores.

Amos ran into financial troubles and was forced to sell Famous Amos Company, since the name of Famous Amos had been trademarked by the former company he once owed, he decide to us "The Uncle Noname's Cookie Company" the new company that he created.