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Mothers of Invention

STEMFest 2014!   16th annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day. Mothers of Invention. Jacqui C. Williams, founding director Contact 518.210.6028 or info@figah.us www.figah.us and visit us on Facebook. Sybilla Masters, 18 th century Quaker wife.

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Mothers of Invention

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  1. STEMFest 2014!   16th annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day Mothers of Invention

  2. Jacqui C. Williams, founding director Contact 518.210.6028 or info@figah.us www.figah.us and visit us on Facebook

  3. Sybilla Masters, 18th century Quaker wife • 1712 Changed method of curing corn from grinding to stamping allowing corn to be processed into many different foods and cloth products. • Working and weaving new method of Palmetta chip and straw for hats and bonnets.

  4. Doris Kies, 1809

  5. Sarah Goode Folding Cabinet Bed patent 1885

  6. Ellen EglinClothes wringer 1888 “ You know I am black and if it was known that a Negro woman patented the invention white ladies would not buy the wringer, I was afraid to be known because of my color, in having it introduced into the market, that is the only reason”.

  7. Ironing Board innovation, 1892 • the purpose was "to produce a cheap, simple, convenient and highly effective device, particularly adapted to be used in ironing the sleeves and bodies of ladies' garments.”

  8. Lyda Newman, synthetic bristle hairbrush

  9. Madeline Turner, Fruit Press 1916

  10. Household Items • Bed rack • Torpedo discharger • Device for amputee to feed self • Nursery chair • Home video security system • Fireplace damper • Pain relief product • Illusion transmitter • Toilet paper holder • Back washer mounted on shower wall • Knock down wheeled toy • Rain hat • Device to remove cataracts • Toaster with digital clock • T- top roof cover • Keyboard stand

  11. Miriam E. Benjamin Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels 1888

  12. ArchiaL.Ross Patents • #565,301, 8/4/1896, Runner for stoops • #605,343, 6/7/1898, Bag closure • #638,068, 11/28/1899, Trousers support or stretcher

  13. Annie Turnbo Malone • Manufactured line of beauty products. • Created unique distribution system. • Recruited former washerwoman C. J Walker as salesperson. • Philanthropist.

  14. Marjorie Joyner Permanent Wave Machine

  15. Virgie Ammons, 1908 – 2000 • 1975 patent Fireplace Actuating Damper Tool allows damper to be locked in the closed position to prevent cold air and dust from blowing down the chimney and back into the house.

  16. Mary Van Brittan Brown Home video security System 1966

  17. Valerie Thomas, Illusion Transmitter 1980 • Extends the idea of television, with its images located flatly behind a screen, to having three dimensional projections appear as though they were right in your living room.

  18. Mary Beatrice Kenner Improved bathroom tissue holder 1982

  19. Patricia Bath, M.D. • Selected to participate in cancer research as a teenager. • First Black person to complete residency in ophthalmology. • Patented “Laserphaco probe”, apparatus for ablating & removing cataracts 1988.

  20. Aprille Ericsson, Ph.D. • First woman to receive Ph.D in mechanical engineering from Howard and first woman of African descent to receive Ph.D. in engineering at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. • Women in Science and Engineering award for best female in Federal Government 1998.

  21. Ruane Jeter, safety scalpel handle 2009

  22. Saheela Ibraheem • At 15 achieved near perfect S.AT. score. • Accepted into 13 Ivy League schools. • Attending Harvard studying neurobiology.

  23. Zora Bell, 7 • Youngest person to create a mobile video game. • Attends Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School in Philadelphia.

  24. What do you think the world needs to be invented?

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