Earth's Unsung-est Heroes: Black Inventors, pt. 3 (ep. 183)

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Necessity is the mother of invention and who was in a more necessitous position than victims of the Atlantic slave trade? You may revolutionize industries, but good luck getting a patent.

00:47 Patents and law 

06:40 Benjamin Bradley

09:10 Benjamin Montgomery

16:30 Thomas Jennings

23:15 Henry Boyd

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig.

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/with-patents-or-without-black-inventors-reshaped-american-industry-180962201

https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/02/11/5-inventions-by-enslaved-black-men-blocked-by-us-patent-office/4/

https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-history-month-inventions-black-slaves-denied-patents/

https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/08/05/sarah-boone-inventor-ironing-board-and-first-black/

https://theconversation.com/americas-always-had-black-inventors-even-when-the-patent-system-explicitly-excluded-them-72619

https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-history-month-inventions-black-slaves-denied-patents/

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/reed-judy-w-c-1826

https://web.archive.org/web/20180802193123/https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-recognizes-inventive-women-during-womens-history-month

https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2016/03/21/10-black-women-innovators-and-the-awesome-things-they-brought-us

https://www.nkytribune.com/2019/02/our-rich-history-henry-boyd-once-a-slave-became-a-prominent-african-american-furniture-maker/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/first-african-american-hold-patent-invented-dry-scouring-180971394/

https://blackinventor.com/benjamin-bradley/

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/goode-sarah-e-c-1855-1905/

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