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.

Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr.

Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was born March 4, 1877 and die on July 27, 1963. Garrett  was an African American inventor and community leader. Garrett is most notable for his inventions included the protective respiratory hood (or gas mask), a traffic signal, and creating the hair-straightening chemical for African Americans.

Madam C.J. Walker

Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), was known as Madam C. J. Walker an African American entrepreneur and philanthropist, regarded as the first female self-made millionaire in America. She made her fortune from developing and marketing successful line of beauty and hair care products for black women under her company she created and founded Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.

Sarah Breedlove was born in Delta,Louisana on December 23,1867 to Owen and Minerva Breedlove,who were both share croppers. Sarah was one of six children; she had a sister Louvain and four brothers : Alexander, James, Solomon, and Owen Jr.

Henry T Sampson

Henry T. Thomas Sampson, Jr. was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934 and is an African American inventor. Henry graduated from Lanier High School Jackson, Mississippi in1951.He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta before transferring to Purdue University in Indiana. There he became a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Henry T Sampson then horn a Bachelor’s degree in science from Purdue University in 1956. Henry T Sampson also graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1961 with a MS degree in engineering. Henry then received an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1965, and his PhD in 1967. He is the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the United States.

Sampson s in the United States Navy as between the years 1962 and 1964 as a research chemical engineer for the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake U.S. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake California, in the area of high energy solid propellants and case bonding materials for solid rocket motors.