Black History Science Nuggets
December 30th, 1892
Physician, Dr. Miles V. Lynk, publishes the first black medical journal.
December 28th, 1897
C.V. Richey patents Fire Escape Brackets, patent #596,427,
October 9th, 1888
O.B. Clare patents rail trestle, patent #390,753.
October 6th, 1895
W. D. Davis patented an improved riding saddle.
August 11th, 1949
Peter Murray Marshall of New York appointed to American Medical Associations House of Delegates.
July 14th, 1885
Sara E. Goode invented the cabinet bed.
July 10th, 1893
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the world's first open heart surgery on a stab wound victim, James Cornish, at Provident Hospital in Chicago, IL.
July 6th, 1971
Henry Sampson invented the cellular phone.
June 13th, 1910
Williams D. Crum (1859-1912), a South Carolina Physician appointed Minister to Liberia.
May 4th, 1897
J. W. Smith, patented lawn sprinklers, patent #5881, 785.
May 2nd, 1844
Elijah McCoy, master inventor, holder of over 50 patents and source of the phrase "The Real McCoy" is born.
April 3rd, 1888
April 3rd, 1888
A.B. Blackburn invented the spring seat for chairs, which became patent #380, 420.
February 20th, 1900
February 20th, 1900
J. F. Bickering patents airship invention.
February 9th, 1995
Bernard Harris, African American astronaut, takes space walk.
January 7th, 1890
Inventor W. B. Purvis, patents the fountain pen.
Science
African Americans/Blacks are not strangers to science and medicine. Healings and cures have always been a part of the culture and history of African Americans/Blacks.From folk medicine, to medical doctors, African Americans/Blacks are familiar with "making a way where there is no way." "Dr. Moms" have been treating illnesses and ailments for thousands of years.
One of the first black owned hospitals, located in Tennessee, emerged in 1915. This hospital was founded and run by Emma Rochelle Wheeler. New York City was also home of one of the first black owned hospital in 1925.
Not only are African Americans/Blacks gifted in medicine, but gifted in science as well. Accomplishments in patents and inventions belong to such great men and women as J.R. Winters (Fire escape ladder, 1878), W.B. Purvis (Hand Stamp, 1883), Sarah Boone (Ironing Board, 1892), Marjorie Steward Joyner (Permanent Waving Machine for Hairstyling, 1928) and Percy Lavon Julian (105 Patents).
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