Sarah Elisabeth Goode made history in 1885 when she became one of the first Black American women to earn a patent. She ...

Woods was a Black inventor so successful that he was sometimes ... John Standard did not invent the very first refrigerator. However, every patent represents something that has not been done ...

And in the era of Reconstruction, “[r]acism and a strictly segregated society further encumbered female inventors of color.” As a result, historians can identify only four African-American ...

"Big Chief" Mason, it's now agreed by historians, was actually the device's inventor, Garrett Morgan. Born in 1877 in Kentucky, Morgan was not exactly a chief. He had two black grandparents—one ...

Still, many black inventors have overcome these obstacles ... was at home working on an ambitious idea: He wanted to create a refrigerator that ran on water, rather than ozone-layer-depleting ...

Refrigeration is the process of creating cooling conditions by removing heat. It is mostly used to preserve food and other perishable items, preventing foodborne illnesses. It works because ...

Others are completely lost to history. “There were some instances where Black inventors would compete with Alexander Graham Bell, with Thomas Edison, where their inventions were really just as ...

These innovative creations—and more—wouldn’t exist today if it weren’t for the brilliant minds of these 10 Black inventors. Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1859) was the first African American ...

The inventor was known to be the first Black man in Cleveland to own a car; after witnessing an accident, Morgan decided to invent a light that would warn you to stop. Shortly after, he acquired ...

But here again, the food had spoiled because another Black Man, John Standard invented the refrigerator. Now, isn't that something? What would this country be like without the contributions of ...

Of course, refrigeration is far older than the invention of the home refrigerator. The Chinese cut and stored ice as far back as 1,000 B.C. Later on, natural ice was harvested and shipped around ...

That's Elijah McCoy, the revolutionary Black inventor who was born 178 years ago today. McCoy's parents escaped slavery in Kentucky on the Underground Railroad and settled in Canada, where they ...