Joseph Lee...Baking up a Storm!
INVENTIONS:
"The Automatic Bread Crumber"
"The Bread-Making Machine"
Joseph Lee was born in 1849, and lived most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts. His world was the...
Frederick McKinley Jones, A True Genius
Frederick McKinley Jones is undisputably one of the most important African American inventors ever, holding more than 60 patents in a variety of fields...
Frederick McKinley Jones: An Officer and An Inventor
Frederick McKinley Jones has often been called "the man with a million ideas." He had so many that we will be featuring him often...
Dr. George F. Grant...Teeing it Up!
Inventor - "The Golf Tee"
Patent #628,920, December 12, 1899Dr. George Franklin Grant was born in Oswego, New York in 1847, and was the son...
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guiana, the son of a Black woman and a Dutch engineer. He began working in his father's...
