BLACK INVENTORS PT2 – Edited by WDC
Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806(The Almanac and Designed Washington DC) yet many more others include:
1. Lawn Mower J. A. Burr May 19, 1889
2. Baby Buggy W. H. Richardson June 18, 1899
3. Lock W. A. Martin July 23, 1889
4. Bicycle Frame Issac R. Johnson Oct. 10, 1899
5. Door Stop O. Dorsey Dec. 10, 1878
6. Cellular Car Phone Henry T. Sampson July 6, 1971
7. Clothes Dryer G. T. Sampson June 6, 1892
8. Mail Box Paul B. Downing Oct. 27, 1939
9. Curtain Rod S. C. Scratton Nov. 30 1889
10. Lunch Pail James Robinson 1887
11. Mop Thomas B. Stewart June 11, 1893
12. Door Knob O. Dorsey Dec. 10, 1878
13. Dust Pan Lawrence P. Ray Aug. 3, 1897
14. Elevator Alexander Miles Oct. 11, 1867
15. Fire Extinguisher T.J. Marshall Oct. 26, 1872
16. Spark Plug Edmond Berger Feb. 2, 1830
17. Folding Bed L. C. Bailey July 18, 1889
18. Gas Heater B. F. Jackson TBD
19. Railway Signal A. B. Blackburn TBD
20. Window Cleaner A. L. Lewis 1892
21. Ice Cream Augustus Jackson TBD
22. Typewriter Burridge & Marshman Apr. 7, 1885
23. Tricycle M. A. Cherry May 8, 1888
24. Lawn Sprinkler J.W. Smith May 4, 1897
25. Thermostat Control Frederick M. Jones Feb. 23, 1960
26. Golf Tee T. Grant Dec. 12, 1899
27. Stove T. A. Carrington July 25, 1876
28. Fountain Pen W. B. Purvis Jan. 7, 1890
29. Folding Chair Brody & Surgwar June 11, 1889
30. Stethoscope Imhotep Ancient Egypt
31. Fire Escape Ladder J. W. Winters May 7, 1878
32. Eye Protector P. Johnson Nov. 2, 1880
33. Refrigerator J. Standard July 14, 1891
34. Potato Chip Huram S. Thomas TBD
35. Ironing Board Sarah Boone Dec, 30, 1887
36. Latern Michael C. Harvey Aug. 19, 1884(First Heart Surgeon)
37. Lunch Pail James Robinson 1887
38. Key Chain F. J. Loudin Jan. 9, 1894
39. Toilet T. Elkins 1897
40. Stream Table G.W. Kelley 1897
41. Ice Cream Scooper Alfred Cralle Feb 2, 1897
42. Ship Propeller George Tolivar TBD
43. Lemon Squeezer J. H. White 1896
44. Motor J. Gregory TBD
45. Airplane Propelling James S. Adams TBD
46. Sailing Apparatus James Forten 1850
47. Wrench John A. Johnson TBD
48. Helicopter Paul E. Williams TBD
49. Guitar Robert Flemming Jr. Mar. 3, 1886
50.Dr. Philip Emeagwali -Super-computers and one of the fathers of the Internet.
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Posted in Africa House, Rastas.
– May 1, 2010
Black Inventors: Granville T. Woods
Granville T Woods:
• #299,894, 6/3/1884, Steam boiler furnace
• #308,817, 12/2/1884, Telephone transmitter
• #315,368, 4/7/1885, Apparatus for transmissions of messages by electricity
• #364,619, 6/7/1887, Relay instrument
• #366,192, 7/5/1887, Polarized relay
• #368,265, 8/16/1887, Electromechanical brake
• #371,241, 10/11/1887, Telephone system and apparatus
• #371,655, 10/18/1887, Electromagnetic brake apparatus
• #373,383, 11/5/1887, Railway telegraphy
• #373,915, 11/29/1887, Induction telegraph system
• #383,844, 5/29/1888, Overhead conducting system for electric railways
• #385,034, 6/26/1888, Electromotive railway
• #386,282, 7/17/1888, Tunnel construction for electric railways
• #387,839, 8/14/1888, Galvanic battery
• #388,803, 8/28/1888, Railway telegraphy
• #395,533, 1/1/1889, Automatic safety cut-out for electric circuits
• #463,020, 11/10/1891, Electric railway system
• #507,606, 10/31/1893, Electric railwaysupply system
• #639,692, 12/19/1899, Amusement apparatus
• #656,760, 8/28/1900, Incubator
• #662,049, 11/20/1900, Automatic circuit-breaking apparatus
• #681,768, 9/3/1901, Regulating and controlling electrical translating devices
• #690,809, 1/7/1902, Apparatus for controlling electric motors or other electrical translating devices
• #695,988, 3/25/1902, Electric railway
• #701,981, 6/10/1902, Automatic air brake
• #718,183, 1/13/1903, Electric railway system
• #762,792, 6/14/1904, Electric-railway apparatus
Posted in Rastas.
– April 30, 2010
Alexandre Dumas the Black-Frenchman: France Attempt to Steal Black History Creates Row
Rasta Livewire is picking news feed that French film makers and their financiers are attempting to credit the so-called white tribes as being the author of that nation’s greatest great novels such as, The Three Musketeers and The Count Of Monte Christo.
These works were well known to have been written by a black man, Alexandre Dumas, son of Haitian born General, Thomas Dumas. He is known as one of the fathers of modern French literature and modern French language.
Although France has produced many great writers, none has been as widely read as Alexandre Dumas. His stories have been translated into almost a hundred languages, and have inspired more than 200 motion pictures.
Eventhough very successful in French higher society, Alexandre Dumas (and his father General Thomas Dumas) suffered immensely on the account of his race and the racism of the average so-called white Europeans.
In 1843 he wrote a short novel, Georges, that addressed some of the issues of race and the effects of colonialism. All his life he referred to himself as anegro.
He famously remarked to a so-called white man who insulted him about his mixed-race background with the following words: “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
Although his books were revered by his contemporaries, he was often mocked for his colour. “In caricatures or in sketches he was always presented with big lips, with Afro hair, as a sort of monster.”
Even at death, he was not honoured by the society which he did so much to enlighten and promote. He was buried in his home town rather than in the national mausoleum where luminaries less than him had been buried. And while his book was widely read and celebrated, his remains was not accorded the respect dued to it.
All that changed that on 30 November 2002, when under the orders of the French President, Jacques Chirac, Alexandre Dumas’ body was exhumed, and in a televised ceremony with new coffin all draped in national colours; was transported in a solemn procession to the Panthéon of Paris, the great mausoleum where French luminaries are interred.
President Chirac acknowledged the racism that had existed in the treatment of the remaining physical legacy of Alexandre Dumas; but also emphasized that such a wrong had now been righted, with Alexandre Dumas enshrined alongside fellow authors Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.
Why would France now seek to re-dramatize the life of Alexandre Dumas as a so-called white man?
Below is the one of the several reports on the issue floating on the web:
Dumas film with white actor Depardieu sparks race row
By Emma Jane Kirby
BBC News, Paris
French actor Gerard Depardieu (file image)
Gerard Depardieu’s natural skin tone was not dark enough
A film about 19th Century French author Alexandre Dumas has sparked a row after a white actor was chosen to portray the novelist, who was of African origin.
The celebrated but fair-skinned screen star, Gerard Depardieu, had to darken his skin and wear curly wig to play the part in L’Autre Dumas.
Critics argue the French movie industry has deliberately undermined the 19th Century novelist’s ethnicity.
They say a mixed race actor should have been chosen to play the national hero.
…..The film’s directors insist they simply chose an actor who could match Dumas’s vibrancy.
Posted in Africa House, News Reports, Rastas.
– April 30, 2010
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My research is titled, Blue Blood is Black Blood (1500-1789) and is first based on personal descriptions of European Kings, Nobles and other notables, which describe them as: black (James Boswell), Black Tom {Thomas Fairfax), The Black Boy (King Charles II Stuart), a tall black man (Charles II), too swarthy or good features, bad complexion (Madame de Staël), not the white hands (baroness Isabelle de Charrière), ugly (poet Jan Vos). Then finding matching portraits, but also portraits on which they appear white. So I have found out why this is and how come we are still left in the dark by the museums that take our tax money. I have found that racism started in the time leading to the French Revolution. Racism is an overwrought liberation ideology to free Europe from black supremacy, from a black and coloured elite. Descendents of Africans, who were the first Europeans, 43.000 years ago. Whites came from central Asia, only 6000 years ago. Those European whites only came into power after 1848, and then whitewashed history. Racism took a life of its own when they descended in Africa and starting to divide the place up. Racism started in 1691 in the American colonies, in response to the Reversed Apartheid practiced in Europe, where everybody of note was of colour and only this group, a minority, could benefit from education and positions. They were ‘a fixed mulatto race’ who intermarried because of keeping their colour, between black and beige. They had a black identity called blue blood, a euphemism for black blood, symbolised by Moors in heraldry and paintings. Strangely enough they practiced painting and bleaching of their faces white, yet never dreaming of marrying whites. This happened only after 1789. That’s when black looks became a serious issue en needed to be kept hidden. People come across as afraid, as I read how the Austen family managed to keep the world from seeing Jane Austen’s true likeness. This nonsense goes on with white actors playing parts of black or brown (literary) persons, like Alexander Dumas. Their characters were also brown or black. Marianne Dashwood from ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is described as with ‘a very brown skin.’ Actress Kate Winslet comes nowhere near this description.
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