Black History Month: The Inventors, Great Problem Solvers & Builders of America
After that last post on lynching, I had to go a little lighter before I reach back to the slavery, the slave trade and Africa. Of course, I'll also look at some other things there is plenty to cover. Today, I want to focus on the positive. Looking at all the great black inventors who created something to fill a void in our every day lives and make life better. They are the great problem solvers of our time. George Washington Carver is really the star of all Black inventors. His name is almost synonymous with peanut. By some accounts you'd think he invented the peanut. He actually discovery more than 300 different uses for peanuts including cooking oil, axle grease and printer ink. He was the first African American student at Iowa State University, and first African American faculty member. He then took a job as director of agriculture at Tuskegee Institute. He came up with a crop rotation method that created a surplus of peanuts, potatoes and pecans...