Inventors – 1901 to 1960
Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957)
Lucean Arthur Headen was an African American inventor, entrepreneur, and aviator, born on August 26, 1879, in Carthage, North Carolina,...
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961)
Frederick McKinley Jones was a prolific early 20th Century black inventor who helped to revolutionize both the cinema and refrigeration...
Bessie Blount Griffin (1914-2009)
Bessie Virginia Blount, pioneer physical therapist, inventor, and scientist, was born in Hickory (today Chesapeake), Virginia, on November 24, 1914....
Charles Frederick Page, Inventor of the Bi-Ballooned Flyable Airship, 1903
The story of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903, is...
Henry E. Baker (1857-1928)
Born on September 1, 1857 in Columbus, Mississippi, Henry E. Baker was remarkable for being the first author to explore...
Madeline M. Turner (? – ?)
Madeline M. Turner is the inventor of Turner’s Fruit-Press (the original blueprint/ design on which all modern juicers are based)....
Mary Kenner (1912-2006)
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner is an inventor of numerous products we use today and has the most patents of any...
Alice H. Parker (1895-?)
Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas. In the 1920s...
Marjorie Stewart Joyner (1896-1994)
Marjorie Stewart Joyner was the inventor of the Permanent Wave Machine thus ensuring her a prominent place in cosmetology history. She helped...
