From Google Maps to GIFs, Black inventors have paved the way for making life that little bit easier.
These inventors dreamed big to make their ideas a reality Left your house today? You’ve got Osbourn Dorsey to thank for that one – he invented a door knob in 1878. Ignored a call from a pesky sales company? Dr Shirley Jackson made that possible after paving the way for caller ID. The stories of Black gamechangers have been told in films such as Selma, Hidden Figures and One Night In Miami. But there are plenty more whose stories haven’t made the big screen.
He also worked on techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. George Carver was a proponent of crop diversification Fascinated by environmentalism, he urged farmers of the period to restore nitrogen to their soils by practising systematic crop rotation – alternating cotton crops with plantings of sweet potatoes or legumes, such as peanuts, soybeans and cowpeas.
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