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| Sarah Goode was the first black women to receive a patent |
History TriviaMadame C J Walker was a St. Louis washerwoman-turned-entrepreneur. Walker invented a method to soften and smooth African American hair in 1905. |
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History TriviaLewis Howard Latimerinvented the water closet for railroad cars, an electric lamp with an inexpensive carbon filament and a threaded wooden socket for light bulbs. |
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Black InventorsAgricultural chemist, George Washington Carver invented three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. |