Sarah Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent. She received it in 1885 for a bed that folded up into a desk.
Famous black inventor - African American patent holder ... Sarah Boone. An improvement to the ironing board (U.S. Patent #473653) was ... which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.
Judy W. Reed is the first African-American woman awarded a US patent, January 1884 for her dough kneeding and rolling machine.
Thomas Stewart was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1823. Thomas was the first African American to ever be granted a patent. His patent added some major improvements to the mop.
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Thomas Jennings
Sarah Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent. She received it in 1885 for a bed that folded up into a desk.
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Thomas L. Jennings
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Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent.
Race is not considered in patent applications.
First African American woman to receive a patent, designed furniture and received a patent for a fold-away bed
The first African American to receive a patent for an invention was Thomas L. Jennings. He invented a process of dry cleaning in 1821.
Sarah Boone is credited with the invention and the patent for the ironing board. She was an African American inventor and received the patent in 1892.
William Painter invented the bottle cap, his patent was granted in 1892. He was American but not African-American.
Her patent for the furnace was submitted in 1925. Only thing I can find on birth is 1865.