Alonzo Washington, owner and founder of Omega 7 Inc., is the first black-owned comic book company to create an action figure. The action figure was created for Mr. Washington’s Omega Man character. Tweet
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Black History Fact Of The Day: Ice Cream Scooper
Alfred L. Cralle invented the ice cream scooper. His invention was originally called the “Ice Cream Mold and Disher.” His invention, which only required the use of one hand, was created to scoop out hard to separate foods without it sticking to the apparatus. Mr. Cralle’s sturdy invention was inexpensive to manufacture and could be […]
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On this day, May 20, in 1743, Haitian revolutionary Touissant L’Ouverture was born. Tweet
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On this date, May 13, in 1862, Robert Smalls freed himself and other families from slavery. He accomplished this feat by commandeering the CSS Planter, a Confederate ship, and sailing it beyond a Federal blockade to freedom. According to Wikipedia: “After the American Civil War, [Robert Smalls] became a politician, elected to the South Carolina […]
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On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin became the first person to be arrested for standing up against bus segregation in Montgomery. She was dragged off of a Montgomery bus for defying the segregation laws and booked in an adult jail. Tweet
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Marie Van Brittan Brown received a patent for a home alarm system in 1969. Her device contained four peepholes and a camera. The camera slides up and down to look through each peephole and displays the images on a monitor. In addition to this, Brown’s invention could unlatch a door via remote control. Tweet
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On this day, May 6, in 1886, inventor, M. A. Cherry received a patent for the tricycle. Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: The Mobile Cloud & 4G
Electrical engineer Jesse Eugene Russell is a prolific inventor who owns over a hundred patents. His inventions led to the creation of mobile cloud computing and 4G broadband. Mr. Russell’s patents include: The mobile data telephone, broadband cable telephony network architecture IP ITN network architecture reference model, wireless communication base station, and base station for […]
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In 1887, Alexander Miles received a patent for his invention for automatically opening and closing elevator doors. Tweet
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