Tag: Black Inventor
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Meet Robert F. Flemming Jr, The Black Inventor Of The Louder Guitar Called “Euphonica”
Advertisements Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 1839 – February 23, 1919) was an African-American inventor and Civil War Union sailor. He was the first member of the USS Housatonic’s crew to spot the H.L. Hunley before it sank the USS Housatonic. The sinking of the USS Housatonic is remembered as the first time a submarine […]
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History Of George Carruthers, The Black Inventor Whose Camera Took The First Pictures Of Space
Advertisements “Amazing scientist, engineer, professor, and mentor, he will be remembered.” The National Society of Black Physicists (NSP) said this when it announced the death of one of its members, Dr. George R. Carruthers, on December 26 at a Washington hospital. “Carruthers is regarded the inventor of the UV camera/spectrograph,” said a long-time supporter of […]