LIFE CHANGING VideoS
AMERICAN HISTORY
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer, who improved Edison's light bulb.
Around the same time Edison was experimenting with his bulb -- using carbonized filaments of bay wood, cedar, bamboo and other fibers -- so was Latimer.
Patricia Bath
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer
Dr. Patricia Era Bath was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She was the inventor of laser cataract surgery. Her invention was called Lazerphaco Probe.
George Carruthers
Lewis Howard Latimer
George Carruthers
George Robert Carruthers was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.
Garrett Morgan
Garrett Morgan
George Carruthers
With only an elementary school education, Garrett Morgan began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. He went on to patent several inventions, including an improved sewing machine and traffic signal, a hair-straightening product, and a respiratory device that would later provide the blueprint for WWI gas masks. The inventor died on July 27, 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Otis Boykin
Garrett Morgan
Alice H. Parker
Otis Frank Boykin was an American inventor and engineer. His inventions include electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers.
Alice H. Parker
Garrett Morgan
Alice H. Parker
Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor known for her patent for a gas furnace.
Parker's heating system used independently controlled burner units that drew in cold air and conveyed the heat through a heat exchanger.