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Celebrating inventor Henry Blair who's innovations revolutionized agriculture...

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Celebrating Charles Richard Patterson founder of the first Black owned automobile company in the United States...

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Celebrating engineer Otis Boykin who invented the electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers...

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Celebrating the late NASA biochemist and National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, Dr. Emmett Chappelle, holder of 14 U.S. patents, and author of the ATP fluorescent assay that is still used by scientists today studying extraterrestrial soils for microbial life...

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Celebrating computer scientist Roy Clay the godfather of Silicon Valley...

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Celebrating Dasia Taylor who at age 17 invented stitches that change color if the wound becomes infected...

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Celebrating computer scientist Dr. Mark Dean who developed the technology for the first personal computer while working for IBM...

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Celebrating deputy marshal, Bass Reeves, the real life inspiration for the Lone Ranger...

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Celebrating John Thomas White inventor of the lemon squeezer...

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Celebrating Philip B. Downing inventor of the mail box and street railway switch...

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Celebrating electrical engineer Jesse Russell who invented cellular communication...

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Celebrating molecular physicist, Dr. Elmer Imes, who demonstrated for the first time that Quantum Theory could be applied to the rotational energy states of molecules...

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Celebrating mechanical and electrical engineer David N. Crosthwait Jr., who invented an improved boiler system, a new thermostat control, a new differential vacuum pump, and other items in an effort to improve ventilation system efficiency in large buildings....

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Celebrating computer scientist Lisa Gelboter who developed the animation technology used to create GIFs and Shockwave, a multimedia platform that laid the foundation for the modern web....

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Celebrating astrophysicist Dr. George Carruthers who invented the ultraviolet camera that was used on the Apollo 16 mission to capture the first UV images of Earth from the Moon...

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Celebrating Sarah E. Goode inventor of the cabinet bed and one of the first Black women to receive a patent in the United States...

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Celebrating Joshua Suddith who has been accepted into Morehouse College at age 13, breaking the record for youngest student accepted to Morehouse set by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1944 who was accepted to at age 15....

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Celebrating inventor John Albert Burr who patented an improved lawnmower with traction wheels and a rotary blade that was designed to not get easily clogged up with lawn clippings...

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Celebrating the late pioneering oncologist, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, whose cancer research laid the foundation for treating tumors with chemotherapy...

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Celebrating hairdresser and women's suffragist, Lyda A. Newman, who patented the first hairbrush designed specifically for Black hair...