
Earth's Unsungest Heroes: Black Inventors, pt 4 (ep 184)
Several inventrixes and a story I was NOT expecting to find!
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Show Notes
Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers! Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up.
01:00 L'histoire
06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker
07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus
08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller
10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk
11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board
17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush
19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower
22:03 Biddy Mason
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Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen.
Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/
https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman
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