What has the black race ever invented?

Question

What has the black race ever invented?

Answer 1

Jazz, baby!

Answer 2

I wouldn't answer this question seriously because you are surely being stupid and ignorant to the black race.



The reason that you don't know what black people have made is because your ignorant ancestors took everything and claimed it as there own.



Grow the f u c k up.



Oh and when you think of your hair ( wether you are black , white whatever) think of a black person, stupid.

Answer 3

A black man invented the traffic lights we use today. A black man invented and patented the pencil sharpener. Another patented the wrench! The beer keg tap (purchased by the Milwaukee Brewing Company), multiple barrel machine gun, automatic gear shift, and automatic safety brake were all invented by Richard Spikes, a black man. There are a lot of things invented by black people. There are probably a lot of things you use everyday and don't know that it was invented by a black man. Just do some research! And you might want to be careful about how you refer to the "black race", as you call it.

Answer 4

You know what I'm sick of, I'm sick of this country taking money from here and sending it to every other country to help. There is no other country that helps us it's always us giving to someplace else. What about the people that were born here I don't care what color they are. WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN FIRST. Take a look at any big city and look at the amount of homeless we have and what about veterans they went to fight for this country and came home VA hospitals that can't give them the help they need. Stop complaining about blacks in this country because the majority were born here and start bitching about the WHITE WALL STREET KNOW IT ALLS that got us into the situation along with the last two WHITE presidents we had.

Answer 5

Go to this website. It is extremely thorough on listing African American Inventors and what they invented.



http://www.swagga.com/inventors.htm

Answer 6

peaunut recipes:George Washington Carver I want to say, but I know it was an African American who invented peanut butter, peanut oil, etc.

Answer 7

the first succesful heart transplant and its device was made by two black doctors.

George Washington Carver showed us what peanuts were good for.

You know, i can go on, but, look it up on the web. Google "black inventors" and see what you get.

Answer 8

The traffic light.

Answer 9

Traffic signals, Peanut butter, just look it up! The list goes on and on and on and on,,,,,,,

Answer 10

Benjamin Banneker = Farmers Almanac 1795

Willard H. Bennett = the radio frequency mass spectrometer

George Edward Alcorn = a method of fabricating an imaging X-ray specrometer

George Washington Carbver= discorverd three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans



this should help you out:



Contemporary Black Inventors



1 A.P. Abourne Refining of coconut oil. July 27, 1980

2 A. B. Blackburn Spring seat for chairs. Patent# 380,420 April 3, 1888

3 A.C. Richardson Casket-Lowering Device. Patent# 529,311 November 13, 1894

4 A.C. Richardson Churn. Patent # 466,470 February 17, 1891

5 A.E. Long and A.A. Jones-- Caps For Bottles And Jars 1898

6 A.L. Lewis Window Cleaner 1892

7 A.L. Rickman Galoshes 1898

8 Anna M. Mangin Pastry fork March 1, 1892

9 Alexander P. Ashbourne Biscuit Cutter November, 1875

10 Alexander Miles Elevator and also safety device for elevators. Patent No. 371,207 October11, 1887

11 Alfred L. Cralle Ice Cream Scooper. Patent # 576,395 February 2,1897

12 Alice Parker Heating Furnace 1918

13 Andrew Beard Automatic Car Coupling Device 1897

14 Augustus Jackson Ice cream 1832

15 B. F. Cargill Invalid cot. Patent# 629,658 July 25, 1899

16 B.F. Jackson Gas Burner

17 Benjamin Banneker Clock, Prints for Wash. DC 1st Almanac

18 Bessie V. Griffin Portable Receptacle 1951

19 C.B. Brook Street Sweeper 1896

20 C.V. Richey Fire Escape Bracket. Patent # 596,427 December 28, 1897

21 C. W. Allen Self Leveling table. Patent # 613,436 November 1, 1898

22 D. McCree Portable Fire Escape. Patent # 440,322 November 11, 1890

23 Darryl Thomas Cattle Roping Apparatus

24 Dr. Charles Drew Invented Blood Banks And Established Them Around The World 1940

25 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Performed First Open Heart Surgery 1893

26 Edmond Berger Spark Plug

27 Elbert R. Robinson Electric Railway Trolley

28 Ellen Elgin Clothes Wringer 1880s

29 Elijah Mccoy Automatic Lubrication System (For Railroad And Heavy Machinery) 1892 July 2, 1872

30 Folarin Sosan Package-Park (Solves Package Delivery Dilemma) www.maita.com 1997

31 Frederick Jones Ticket Dispensing Machine. Patent # 2163754 June 27, 1939

32 Frederick Jones Starter Generator. Patent # 2475842 July 12, 1949

33 Frederick Jones Two-Cycle gasoline Engine. Patent # 2523273 November 28, 1950

34 Frederick Jones Air Condition. Patent # 2475841 July 12, 1949

35 Frederick Jones Portable X-Ray Machine

36 G.W. Murray Cultivator and Marker. Patent # 517,961 April 10, 1894

37 G.W. Murray Combined Furrow Opener and Stalk-Knocker. Patent # 517,960 April 10, 1894

38 G.W. Murray Fertilizer Distributor. Patent# 520,889 June 5, 1894

39 G.W. Murray Cotton Chopper. Patent # 520,888 June 5, 1894

40 G.W. Murray Planter. Patent # 520,887 June 5, 1894

41 G. F. Grant Golf Tee. Patent # 638,920 December 12, 1899

42 G.T. Sampson Clothes Drier 1892

43 G.W. Kelley Steam Table 1897

44 Garret A. Morgan Gas Mask (Saved Many Lives During WWI) 1914

45 George Alcorn Fabrication of spectrometer. Patent # 4,618,380 October 21, 1986

46 George Tolivar Ship's propeller

47 George Washington Carver Peanut Butter 1900

48 George Washington Carver 300 products from peanuts, 118 products from the sweet potato and 75 from the pecan. 1900-1943

49 Garret A. Morgan Automatic Traffic Signal 1923

50 Gertrude E. Downing and William Desjardin Corner Cleaner Attachment.

Patent # 3,715,772 February 13, 1973

51 Granville Woods Telephone (His Telephone Was Far Superior To Alexander Graham Bell's) Dec. 2,1884

52 Granville Woods Trolley Car 1888

53 Granville Woods Multiplex Telegraph System (Allowed Messages To Be Sent And Received From Moving Trains) 1887

54 Granville Woods Railway Air Brakes (The First Safe Method Of Stopping Trains) 1903

55 Granville Woods Steam Boiler/Radiator 1884

56 Granville Woods-- Third Rail (Subway)

57 H. Grenon Razor Stropping Device. Patent # 554,867 February 18, 1896

58 H.H. Reynolds Window Ventilator for Railroad Cars.

Patent No.275,271 April 3, 1883

59 H.A. Jackson Kitchen Table

60 Henry Blair Mechanical Seed Planter 1830

61 Henry Blair Mechanical Corn Harvester

62 Henry Single Patented an Improved Fish Hook. He sold it later for $625. 1854

63 Henry Sampson Cellular Phone July 6th, 1971

64 I.O. Carter Nursery Chair 1960

65 Issac R. Johnson Bicycle Frame

66 J. A. Joyce Ore Bucket. Patent # 603,143 April 26, 1898

67 J. Hawkins Patented the Gridiron March 3, 1845

68 J. Gregory Motor

69 J.A. Sweeting Cigarette Roller 1897

70 J.B. Winters Fire Escape Ladder

71 J. H. Hunter Portable Weighing Scales. Patent # 570,533 November 3, 1896

72 J.F. Pickering Air Ship 1892

73 J. H. Robinson Lifesaving guards for Street Cars. Patent# 623,929 April 25, 1899

74 J. Robinson Dinner Pail. Patent# 356,852 February 1, 1887

75 J. W. Reed Dough Kneader and Roller. Patents# 304,552 September 2, 1884

76 J. Ross Bailing Press. Patent # 632,539 Sept 05, 1899

77 J.H. White Convertible Sette (A Large Sofa) 1892

78 J.H. White Lemon Squeezer 1896

79 J.L. Love Pencil Sharpener. Patent # 594,114 23 November 1897

80 J.S. Smith Lawn Sprinkler. Patent # 581,785 May 4, 1897

81 James Forten Sailing Apparatus 1850

82 James S. Adams Airplane Propelling

83 Jan Matzelinger Automatic Shoe Making Machine 1883

84 Joan Clark Medicine Tray 1987

85 John A. Johnson Wrench

86 John Burr Lawn Mower

87 John Parker "Parker Pulverizer" Follower-Screw for Tobacco Presses. Patent# 304,552 September 2, 1884

88 John Standard Refrigerator. Patent# 304,552 Jul 14,1894

89 Joseph Gammel Supercharge System for Internal Combustion Engine

90 Joseph N. Jackson Programmable Remote Control

91 L.C. Bailey Folding Bed 1899

92 L. Bell Locomotive smoke stack. Patent# 115,153 May 23, 1871

93 L. F. Brown Bridle bit. Patent # 484,994 October 25, 1892

94 L.S. Burridge And N.R. Marsham Typewriter 1885

95 Lewis Howard Latimer Light Bulb Filament

96 Lewis Temple Toggle Harpoon (Revolutionized The Whaling Industry) 1848

97 Lloyd A. Hall Chemical compound to preserve meat

98 Lloyd P. Ray Dust Pan

99 Lydia Holmes Wood Toys. Patent # 2,529,692 November 14, 1950

100 Lydia O. Newman Hair brush

101 M.C. Harney Lantern/Lamp Aug.19, 1884

102 Madam. C. Walker Hair Care Products 1905

103 Majorie Joyner Permanent hair wave machine. Patent # 1693515 November 27, 1928

104 Madeline M. Turner The Fruit Press 1916

105 Marie V. Brittan Brown Security System. Patent # 3,482,037 December 2, 1969

106 Manley West Discovered compound in canibis to cure glaucoma. 1980-1987

107 Norbett Rillieux Sugar Refining System 1846

108 O.B. Clare Rail Tresle. Patent# 390,753 October 9, 1888

109 O. E. Brown Horse Shoe 8/23/1892

110 Onesimus Small Pox Inoculation (He Brought This Method From Africa Where Advance Medical Practices Were In Use Long Before Europeans Had Any Medical Knowledge) 1721

111 Otis F. Boykin Wire Type Precision Resistor.

Patent # U.S. 2,891,227 June 16, 1959

112 Paul E Williams Helicopter

113 Peter Walker Machine for Cleaning Seed Cotton

114 Phillip Downing Letter Drop Mailbox. Patent # 462,096 October 27, 1891

115 Philip Emeagwali Accurate Weather Forecasting 1990

116 Philip Emeagwali Hyperball Computer April 1996

117 Philip Emeagwali Improved Petroleum Recovery 1990

118 Philip Emeagwali World's Fastest Computer 1989

119 R.A. Butler Train alarm. Patent #157,370 June 15, 1897

120 R.P. Scott Corn Silker 1894

121 Richard Spikes Automatic Gear Shift

122 Robert Flemming Jr. Guitar March 3, 1886

123 S. H. Love Improvement to military guns. Patent # 1301143. 22 April 1919

124 S. H. Love Improve Vending Machine. Patent # 1936515 November 21, 1933

125 Sara E. Goode Cabinet Bed 1885

126 Rufus Stokes Patent #3,378,241 Exhaust Purifier April 16, 1968

127 Sarah Boone Ironing Board April 26, 1892

128 T. Elkins Toilet 1897

129 T. J. Byrd Rail car coupling . Patent# 157,370 December 1, 1874

130 Thomas Carrington Range Oven 1876

131 Thomas J.Martin Patented the Fire Extinguisher March 26, 1872

132 Thomas W. Stewart Mop 1893

133 Virgie M. Ammons Fireplace Damper Actuating Tool. Patent # 3,908,633 September 30, 1975

134 W. A. Lovette The Advance Printing Press

135 W. F. Burr Railway Switching device . Patent # 636,197 Oct.31,1899

136 W. H. Ballow Combined hatrack and table. Patent # 601,422 March 29, 1898

137 W.S. Campbell Self-setting animal trap. Patent# 246,369 August 30, 1881

138 W. Johnson Egg Beater 1884

139 W.B. Purvis The Fountain Pen Patent# 419,065 Jan 7,1890

140 W.D. Davis Riding Saddles October 6, 1895

141 W.H. Sammons Hot Comb 1920

142 W.S. Grant Curtain Rod Support 1896

143 William Barry Postmarking and Canceling machine

144 Wm. Harwell Attachment for shuttle arm; device used to capture satellites



and theres more if you want them....

Answer 11

Lewis Lattimer was the actual Edison lab worker who invented the carbon filament light bulb.



Jan Ernst Matzeliger invented a machine that made mass production of shoes practical.



Garrett Morgan invented the gas mask and the first traffic light.



The expression 'the real McCoy' refers to part of coal burning trains lubrication system that was invented by Elija McCoy. (competitors substitutes didn't work as well)



Otis Boykin invented electronic control devices in guidance systems for missiles, pacemakers, worked for IBM.



Dr. Patricia E. Bath invented a type of laser surgery for cataract removal that replaced an older mechanical grinding method.



Lonnie G. Johnson invented the supersoaker.



Last time I checked 'American' was a nationality not a race.



There are more, but I don't feel like typing that much stuff.

Answer 12

You're ignorant and moronic. People invent things. A "Race" never invented anything.



Go read a book. I recommend this one: "Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation" by Rayvon Fouché of Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology .

Answer 13

George Washington Carver invented many things

- Three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.

- Three patents (one for cosmetics, and two for paints and stains) were issued to George Washington Carver

- peanut butter



Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver



Dr. Charles Richard Drew

He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. Many give him credit for inventing blood transfusions.



Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richard_Drew





Michael C. Harvey (also known as M.C. Harney or M.C. Harvey) was an African American inventor. In 1884 he improved a type of lantern.



Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Harvey





Marie Van Brittan Brown

She applied for a patent with Albert Brown in 1966 for a closed circuit television security system. The patent was granted in 1969.



Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown



Dr. Mark Dean

An inventor and a computer scientist. He holds three of the original nine patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. He led the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led the design team responsible for creating the first one-gigahertz computer processor chip.



Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean



Just like the Geico commercial, maybe you should have done some research. (Cave man)

Answer 14

They INvented shoes manking pymaind canals refgartior air condintors





and they invented man the were the first on earth and gave birth to other races so suggest to do more studying they inveted the clock time and way more peanut butter...

Answer 15

FOR ONE that I KNOW of...

Have you ever heard the phrase,"Is that the Real McCoy?"

Back during the Railroad hayday when the US was building an intercontinental railway, There was a black man by the name of McCpy, that would have to re-grease wheel parts everytime the train stopped. He soon after, invented the automatic greasing machine. It was so POPULAR that people began making copies of the "Real McCoy." The copies were INFERIOR remakes, and when people bought THEIR regreasing machine, they would ask,"Is that the Real McCoy?" before they purchased it.

Answer 16

Man....I hate racist and ignorant people....check the list

A

George Alcorn

Nathaniel Alexander

Virgie Ammons

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

B

Benjamin Banneker

Patricia Bath

Andrew Jackson Beard

Miriam E. Benjamin

Edmond Berger

Henry Blair

Bessie Blount Sarah Boone

Otis Boykin

Charles Brooks

Phil Brooks

Henry Brown

Marie Brown

John Albert Burr

C

George Washington Carver

George Carruthers

Benjamin S. Carson

Emmett W. Chappelle John Christian

Donald Cotton

David Crosthwait

D

Mark Dean

Ronald Demon

Joseph Hunter Dickinson Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus

Dr. Charles Richard Drew

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

E

Thomas Elkins Philip Emeagwali

F





G

Sarah E. Goode

Meredith C. Gourdine George Grant

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

H

Lloyd Augustus Hall

I-K

Augustus Jackson

Thomas L. Jennings

Jack Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

Willis Johnson Frederick Jones

Marjorie Stewart Joyner

Percy Lavon Julian

Ernest Everett Just

Roscoe Koontz

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

L

Lewis Howard Latimer

Joseph Lee John Lee Love

M

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Elijah McCoy

Alexander Miles Ruth Miro

Garrett Morgan

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

N

Lyda Newman

O





P-Q

Alice Parker

Traverse Benjamin Pinn Willam Purvis

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

R

Lloyd P Ray

Cordell Reed Louis Roberts

Norbert Rillieux

S

Walter Sammons

Henry Sampson

Jerry Shelby

Richard Spikes John Standard

Thomas Stewart

Rufus Stokes

T

Lewis Temple

Valerie Thomas John Henry Thompson

A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I-K/L/M/N/O/P-Q/R/S/T/U-V/W-Z/top

U-V





W-Z

Madame Walker

James Edward West

John Thomas White

Doctor Daniel Hale Williams Paul E. Williams

Joseph Winters

Granville Woods

Kevin Woolfolk

Answer 17

you are not living in America or in the wrong environment. black people through record and unrecorded history has invented many things but some of them were not credit for their work. just go to your library you find millions of things invented by black people. even when your white fathers travled to aferica the birthplace for blacks, they stoled many ideas and invesions and renamed it to their name. just look at egypt the geat prymaids, the were the frist high rise buliding which would become blue print for tall buliding. it seams that you are still blinded by the stories of your white Igronce fathers. wake up

Answer 18

The older I get, the more surprised I am, at how ignorant the world really is. Just a thought cotton is grown, invented by God.

Answer 19

we invented everything from air brakes that save your life, peanut butter, traffic lights, hair products, pencil sharpener, cell phones and much much more. If you were smart you would look this up via intenet or the library but instead you come onto yahoo answers and let everyone see how illiterate you are!

Answer 20

Take a look at George Washington Carver. Brilliant inventor, found more to do with the peanut than you could believe, including peanut butter.



One example, but damn!

Answer 21

Have you ever heard of Vivian Thomas, Benjamin Bannekar, Phyllis Wheatley?



Try this websitewww.kidinfo.com/American_History/Famous_Historical_People

Answer 22

Tons of stuff.

the Cotton Gin

I think it was George Washington Carver came up with like a 1,000 uses for the peanut. Incidentally, he basically saved the american farmer.

tons of other stuff, but those two off the top of my head.

Answer 23

Plenty...try going to some of the African American Museums...like the one in Baltimore...there you will learn alot about what this race has added to this world in a good way....peanut butter for one !!!!!! No Im not African American,but my husband is.......

Answer 24

http://inventors.about.com/library/blblackinventors.htm



Above is a link to a list of black inventors. It took me 2 seconds to find.

Answer 25

well for one i just reported you for hatred and insulting other participants.

two,.... you must be dead ignorant if you dont know anything that blacks have invented,

and also what do you mean by egyptian cotton was invented by arabs??, you are one illitrate person and i wont waste my time answering your racist,ignorant,ill informed question.

Answer 26

Well for one try blood transfusion. That one by itself goes a long ways.

Answer 27

A lot guys

Answer 28

go ahead-get banned then.