Hidden No More: Week 9 round-up
…nutritious foods in the American South. Norbert Rillieux In 1843, Rillieux received a patent for an improved method of refining sugar. His innovation transformed the sugar industry. It is still…
…nutritious foods in the American South. Norbert Rillieux In 1843, Rillieux received a patent for an improved method of refining sugar. His innovation transformed the sugar industry. It is still…
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…Science Correlations: 7.E.1.1, 7.E.1.6 8th Grade Science Correlations: 8.P.2.1 Earth & Environmental Science Science Correlations: EEn.2.6.3 Exoplanet Hunters 6th Grade Science Correlations: 6.E.1.1, 6.E.1.2, 6.E.1.3 Ocean Acidification & Climate Change…
Thomas L. Jennings Jennings, a tailor, was the first African American known to receive a U.S. patent. In 1821, he was granted patent no. 3,306x for “dry scouring,” a precursor…
Henry E. Baker Baker was an examiner in the U.S. Patent Office. In the early 1900s, he conducted a national search to learn which patents had been granted to African Americans…
…which provided practical advice to women, is one of the first medical publications by an African American. Eliza Ann Grier In 1897, Grier became the first African American woman licensed…
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Ada Lovelace Lovelace wrote the first computer program ever published — instructions for the Analytical Engine, a computer proposed by inventor Charles Babbage, to generate Bernoulli numbers. Margaret Hamilton Hamilton…
Christine Darden Christine Darden is from Monroe, North Carolina. She was the first African American woman to be awarded a doctorate of science in mechanical engineering. A leader of NASA’s…
…Space Station (ISS) on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 27, 2020, from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Unfortunately, due to a last minute change in the Florida…