Hidden No More: Week 18 round-up
Carolyn Beatrice Parker, Physicist During World War II, Parker was a scientist on the Dayton Project, which processed polonium for use in atomic bombs. She later died of leukemia, which…
Carolyn Beatrice Parker, Physicist During World War II, Parker was a scientist on the Dayton Project, which processed polonium for use in atomic bombs. She later died of leukemia, which…
…$40,000. Onesimus, Medical Advisor Onesimus, an enslaved African in Boston, explained that being inoculated with smallpox gave protection from the disease. He had observed this in Africa. His information proved…
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…the 1920s, Poro had made her a multi-millionaire. Elijah McCoy, Inventor McCoy’s improvement in lubricators for steam engines was patented in 1872. Working on the Michigan Central Railroad, he had…
…a toy he invented in his spare time. By 2015, when it was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, the Super Soaker had netted about $1 billion in…
…is the first African American involved in discovering an element. Charles Harrison, Industrial Designer Harrison was responsible for designing 100s of products sold by Sears. The first plastic trash bin…
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…Howard University. David Crosthwait, Engineer & Inventor When Rockefeller Center opened in the 1930s, among its innovations were heating and cooling systems designed by Crosthwait. He also used his expertise…
…in his 1937 paper “Immunologic Studies in Sickle Cell Anemia.” George R. Carruthers, Physicist & Inventor On the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, the far ultraviolet camera/spectrograph that Carruthers invented…
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