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Jerry Shelby - NASA Engineer & Inventor
http://inventors.about.com (362 hits)NASA engineer, Jerry Shelby invented an engine protection system for recoverable rocket booster and received U.S. patent # 5,328,132 on July 12, 1994. Jerry Shelby rocket booster's purpose is to propel an associated space vehicle to at least a desired first stage of travel. Shelby designed a rocket booster with... More... (Inventors)
Richard Spikes Patented or Developed Many Inventions.
http://inventors.about.com (309 hits)Black inventor, Richard Spikes patented or developed many inventions including an improved automatic gear shift; semaphore (1906), automatic car washer (1913), automobile directional signals (1913) - manufactured by Pierce Arrow beer keg tap (1910) - purchased by Milwaukee Brewing Company, self-locking rack for billiard cues (1910), and much more.. More... (Inventors)
Norbert Rillieux Invented the Sugar Processing Evaporator
http://inventors.about.com (255 hits)Norbert Rillieux inventing a sugar processing evaporator and an improved sugar refining process that safely saved time and money in the making of sugar from sugar beets or sugar cane. Norbert Rillieux was born in New Orleans. His father was a French engineer and a plantation farmer. His mother had... More... (Inventors)
Roscoe L. Koontz
http://inventors.about.com (167 hits)Roscoe L. Koontz was among the first formally trained health physicists through his participation in the first Atomic Energy Health Physics Fellowship Training Program, sponsored at the University of Rochester in 1948. He designed a pinhole gamma ray camera and collimator and helped to design and fabricate automatic air... More... (Scientist)
Walter Sammons Patented an Improved Heated Comb
http://inventors.about.com (274 hits)Walter Sammons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania received U.S. patent #1,362,823 on December 21, 1920 for an improved comb that straightened hair. According to Walter Sammons' patent he invented a heated comb that removed kinks from the hair. More... (Inventors)
Henry Sampson Invented a Gamma-Electrical Cell.
http://inventors.about.com (247 hits)African American inventor Henry Sampson is a brilliant and accomplished nuclear physicist who invented a Gamma-Electrical Cell. Henry Sampson's patent (US 3,591,860) can be viewed in its entirety online or in person at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. View Portions of the patent below. Henry Sampson was born... More... (Inventors)
Whitney Houston
whitneyhouston.com (219 hits)With over 170 million combined album, singles and videos sold worldwide during her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom that will quite simply never be eclipsed in the modern era. She is a singer's singer who has influenced countless other vocalists female and male. More... (Musicians)
Robert L. Johnson Biography
answers.com (221 hits)"We want a broad audience, but we never want to forget our mandate: to give black audiences a full range of black entertainment and information," Robert L. Johnson, the founder and president of Black Entertainment Television (BET), told Christopher C. Williams in the New York Times. More... (Business Owners)
Michael Jackson
answers.com (181 hits)Michael Jackson was unquestionably the biggest pop star of the '80s, and certainly one of the most popular recording artists of all time. In his prime, Jackson was an unstoppable juggernaut, possessed of all the tools to dominate the charts seemingly at will More... (Musicians)
Steve Harvey
http://steveharvey.com (131 hits)Broderick Steven "Steve" Harvey is an American comedian, actor, entertainer, and radio personality. He is probably best known as the star of the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy. More... (Comedian)
