Black History Month - African American Inventors

Patent Holders List Index A

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George Edward Alcorn

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Black history inventors are listed alphabetically: use the A to Z index bar to navigate and select or just browse the many listings. Each listing has the name of the black inventor followed by the patent number(s) which is the unique number assigned to an invention when a patent is issued, the date the patent was issued, and a description of the invention as written by the inventor. If available, links are provided to in-depth articles, biographies, illustrations and photos on each individual inventor or patent. How to submit to the database²⁵.

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William B Abrams

• #450,550²⁷, 4/14/1891, Hame Attachments Part for a draft horses' collar.

Elijah Abron

• #7,037,564, 5/2/2006, Substrate sheets with removable strip

Christopher P. Adams

• #5,641,658, 6/24/1997, Method for performing amplification of nucleic acid with two primers bound to a single solid support

James S Adams

• #1,356,329²⁸, 10/19/1920, Propelling means for airplanes.

George Edward Alcorn²⁹

• #4,172,004³⁰, 10/23/1979, Method for forming dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias
• #4,201,800, 5/6/1980, Hardened photoresist master image mask process
• #4,289,834, 9/15/1981, Dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias
• #4,472,728, 9/18/1984, Imaging X-ray spectrometer
• #4,543,442, 9/24/1985, GaAs Schottky barrier photo-responsive device and method of fabrication
• #4,618,380³¹, 10/21/1986, Method of fabricating an imaging X-ray spectrometer

Nathaniel Alexander³²

• #997,108³³, 7/4/1911, Folding Chair

Ralph W Alexander

• #256,610³⁴, 4/18/1882, Corn planter check rower

Winser Edward Alexander

• #3,541,333, 11/17/1970, System for enhancing fine detail in thermal photographs

Charles William Allen

• #613,436³⁵, 11/1/1898, Self-Leveling Table

Floyd Allen

• #3,919,642, 11/11/1975, Low cost telemeter for monitoring a battery and DC voltage converter power supply

James B. Allen

• #551,105³⁶, 12/10/1895, Clothes Line Support

James Metthew Allen

• #2,085,624³⁷, 6/29/1937, Remote control apparatus

John H Allen

• #4,303,938, 12/1/1981, Pattern generator for simulating image generation

John S Allen

• #1,093,096³⁸, 4/14/1914, Package-tie

Robert T Allen

• #3,071,243³⁹, 1/1/1963, Vertical coin counting tube

Tanya R Allen

• #5,325,543⁴⁰, 7/5/1994, Undergarment with a pocket for releasably securing an absorbent pad

Virgie M. Ammons⁴¹

• #3,908,633⁴², 9/30/1975, Fireplace Damper Actuating Tool

Alexander P Ashbourne

• #163,962, 6/1/1875, Process for Preparing Coconut
• #170,460⁴³, 11/30/1875, Biscuit Cutter
• #194,287, 8/21/1877, Process of Treating Coconut
• #230,518, 7/27/1880, Refining Coconut Oil

Moses T. Asom

• #5,386,126, 1/31/1995, Semiconductor devices based on optical transitions between quasibound energy levels

Marc Auguste⁴⁴

• #7,083,512, 8/1/2006, Coin and token organizing, holding and dispensing apparatus⁴⁵

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Sarah Goode

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Sarah Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent. Patent #322,177 was issued on July 14, 1885 for a cabinet bed. Sarah Goode was the owner of a Chicago furniture store. Below you can view the patent issued to Sarah Goode.

Folding Cabinet Bed

Sarah Goode was the first African American woman inventor to receive a patent! Sp Sarah E Goode
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Norbert Rillieux

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View the Original Rillieux Sugar Patents

Norbert Rillieux inventing a sugar processing evaporator and an improved sugar refining process that safely saved time and money in the making of sugar from sugar beets or sugar cane.

Norbert Rillieux was born in New Orleans. His father was a French engineer and a plantation farmer. His mother had been a slave. Rillieux's father sent Norbert to France where he studied engineering. After returning to New Orleans, Rillieux invented his improved sugar refining process and evaporator.

Refining sugar had been a labor-intensive process, involving the handling of boiling hot liquids. The slaves on the plantations performed most of this labor. Rillieux's inventions increased sugar production and reduced production costs. However, the most important thing was that his inventions protected lives by ending the older dangerous methods of sugar production.

Rillieux later returned to France where he continued working on his inventing and published papers on the uses of steam and the steam engine.

Norbert Rillieux
Norbert Rillieux invented the sugar processing evaporator - Invention Dimension.

Sugar Evaporation System
View the prototype model for a sugar evaporation system, dated 1843 and invented by Norbert Rillieux (1806-94).

Norbert Rillieux: Sugar Chemist and Inventor
Norbert Rillieux was revolutionary in the sugar industry, by his inventing of a refining process that reduced the time, cost, and safety risk involved in producing sugar from cane and beets.

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