Inventions Created By African Americans

George Washington Carver (с. 1860 – Jan. 5, 1943)

peanuts, Sweet potatoes,

George Crum (c. 1828 – July 22, 1914)

the Potato Chip

Garrett Morgan (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963).

gas masks
traffic signals

Madame C.J. Walker (Dec. 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919)

a system

Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 –1999)

closed-circuit television security system

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852–1889)

shoe lasting machinery

Lonnie G. Johnson (1949– )

spacecraft control systems 
the Super Soaker water gun

Dr. Patricia Bath (1942– )

the Laserphaco Probe

Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904–1950)

America's first large-scale blood bank during World War