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Website: Famous Black Inventors

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The Famous Black Inventors Website offers excellent profiles of past and present African-American innovators, as well as a resource page with information on inventors — particularly African Americans and women, inventions, invention history and trivia, and links to other Internet sites.

Look for information about African-American inventors and you’ll quickly find that American innovation is rich with the contributions of famous black inventors like Elijah McCoy, Lewis Howard Latimer, George Washington Carver (pictured below) and Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove).

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George Washington Carver

In fact, many modern conveniences and necessities are directly related to, or derivative of, the inventions of black inventors: blood banks, the refrigerator, the electric trolley, the dust pan, comb, mop, brush, clothes dryer, refrigerator, lawn mower, traffic signals, the pen and the pencil sharpener.

But what of the present-day counterparts to these historical figures? Did African-Americans just up and stop inventing? The answer, conclusively, is no.

From colonial times through today, Americans of African and Caribbean descent have contributed to the advancement of medicine, physics, industrialization and plain old fun. Famous Black Inventors is pleased to present an introduction to just a few of the many modern-day African-American inventors, as well as biographies of their predecessors throughout American history.

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