Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
1855–1905. Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [ 81][ 82][ 83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee .
Charles R. Drew. Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
Miriam Benjamin. Henry Blair (inventor) Sarah Boone. Otis Boykin. Benjamin Bradley (inventor) Charles B. Brooks. Henry Brown (inventor) Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown. Hugh M. Browne.
This article was first published in 2016 and is from the Miami Herald Archives. As a newly licensed physician in the mid-1960s, Dr. James W. Bridges began to practice medicine in Miami just as ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
Former Cincinnati City Councilman Chris Seelbach donated blood at Hoxworth Blood Center after the FDA lifted its ban on gay and bisexual male donors.
Houchin Community Blood Bank [13] LifeStream Blood Bank [14] Northern California Community Blood Bank [15] San Diego Blood Bank [16] Stanford Blood Center [17] UCI Health Blood Donor Center [18] UCLA Blood & Platelet Center [19] Delaware. Blood Bank of Delmarva [20]
James Boone (m. 1847) Children. 8. Sarah Boone ( née Sarah Marshall; c. 1832 – 1904) was an African-American inventor. On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563 [ 1] for her improvements to the ironing board. Boone's ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing the sleeves and bodies of women's ...