Black History Month

Myth Twenty and Twenty-One

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions.It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions(whether they invented it or not).” I guess this person doesn’t care about the truth.Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just correcting some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

Did many Negroes hold patents - yes - but a patent is not an invention. Only the uneducated confuse the two.For the record, I am not the author of the following.

Fountain Pen
Was the fountain Pen invented in 1890

by black inventor W.B. Purvis?

No!

The first reference to what seems to be a fountain pen appears in an Arabic text from 969 AD; details of the instrument are not known. A French "Bion" pen, dated 1702, represents the oldest fountain pen that still survives. Later models included John Scheffer's 1819 pen, possibly the first to be mass-produced; John Jacob Parker's "self-filling" pen of 1832; and the famous Lewis Waterman pen of 1884 (US Patents #293545, #307735). See the history of the fountain pen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_pen

What about the Fire Extinguisher,

was it invented by black inventor Thomas J. Martin

in 1872? No!

In 1813, British army captain George Manby created the first known portable fire extinguisher: a two-foot-tall copper cylinder that held 3 gallons of water and used compressed air as a propellant. One of the earliest extinguishers to use a chemical extinguishing agent, and not just water, was invented in 1849 by the Englishman William Henry Phillips, who patented his "fire annihilator" in England and the United States (US patent #7,269). To see the history of Fire Extinguishers click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher

Black History Month

Myth Eighteen and Nineteen

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions.It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions (whether they invented it or not).” I guess this person doesn’t care about the truth.

Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just correcting some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

Did many Negroes hold patents - yes - but a patent is not an invention. Only the uneducated confuse the two.

For the record, I am not the author of the following.

Electric Trolley
Did Granville Woods invent the electric trolley car,

the overhead wire that powers it, or the "troller"

wheel that makes contact with the trolley wire, in 1888?

He didn't do it

Well he got patents, but even today you could get a patent on an elevator by making some alterations. But that doesn't mean you were the inventor!

Dr. Werner von Siemens demonstrated his electric trolleybus, the Elektromote, near Berlin on April 29, 1882. The vehicle's two electric motors collected power through contact wheels rolling atop a pair of overhead wires. The earliest patentee of an electric trolley in the United States appears to be Eugene Cowles (#252193 in 1881), followed by Dr. Joseph R. Finney (#268476 in 1882) who operated an experimental trolley car (see http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=scri;cc=scri;rgn=full%20text;idno=scri0003-3;didno=scri0003-3;view=image;seq=00324;node=scri0003-3%3A1) near Pittsburgh, PA in the summer of 1882. In early 1885, John C. Henry established in Kansas City, MO, the first overhead-wire electric transit system to enter regular service in the United States. Belgian-born Charles van Depoele, who earned 240+ patents in electric railway technology and other fields, set up trolley lines in several North American cities by 1887. In February 1888, a trolley system designed by Frank Sprague began operating in Richmond, Virginia. Sprague's system became the lasting prototype for electric street railways in the US. Also click here: http://www.railroadinfo.com/features/eot/early.html

Elevator
Was it invented by American Negro, Alexander Miles, in 1887? No!
Was Miles the first to patent a self-closing shaft door? No!

Steam-powered hoisting devices were used in England by 1800. Elisha Graves Otis' 1853 "safety elevator" prevented the car from falling if the cable broke, and thus paved the way for the first commercial passenger elevator, installed in New York City's Haughwout Department Store in 1857. The first electric elevator appeared in Mannheim, Germany in 1880, built by the German firm of Siemens and Halske. A self-closing shaft door was invented by J.W. Meaker in 1874 ("Improvement in Self-closing Hatchways," US Patent No. 147,853). See Elevator Timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator

Black History Month

Myth Sixteen and Seventeen

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions.It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions (whether they invented it or not).” I guess this person doesn’t care about the truth.

Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just correcting some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

For the record, I am not the author of the following.

Dustpan
Did Negro - Lloyd P. Ray
Really invent the Dustpan in 1897?

While the ultimate origin of the dustpan is lost in the mists (dusts?) of time, at least we know that US patent #20811 for "Dust-pan" was granted to T.E. McNeill in 1858. That was the first of about 164 US dustpan patents predating Lloyd Ray's. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustpan

Egg Beater
Black history month often
Tells us that Willie Johnson
Invented the egg beater in 1884?
“Give me a break!”

The hand-cranked egg beater with two intermeshed, counter-rotating whisks was invented by Turner Williams of Providence, Rhode Island in 1870 (US Patent #103811 see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixer_(cooking)

It was an improvement on earlier rotary egg beaters that had only one whisk.

Black History Month

Myth Fourteen & Fifteen

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions. It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions(whether they invented it or not).” I guess this person doesn’t care about the truth. Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just correcting some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

For the record, I am not the author of the following.

Clock or Watch

(First in America)

Did Benjamin Banneker, a black man build the

first American timepiece in 1753?

Nope!

Abel Cottey, a Quaker clockmaker from Philadelphia, built a clock that is dated 1709 (source: Six Quaker Clockmakers, by Edward C. Chandlee; Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943). Banneker biographer Silvio Bedini further refutes the myth:

Several watch and clockmakers were already established in the colony [Maryland] prior to the time that Banneker made the clock. In Annapolis alone there were at least four such craftsmen prior to 1750. Among these may be mentioned John Batterson, a watchmaker who moved to Annapolis in 1723; James Newberry, a watch and clockmaker who advertised in the Maryland Gazette on July 20, 1748; John Powell, a watch and clockmaker believed to have been indentured and to have been working in 1745; and Powell's master, William Roberts. Silvio Bedini, The Life of Benjamin Banneker (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1999)

Clothes Dryer

Was it “invented” by the African-American,
George T. Sampson, in 1892?
Didn't do it!

The "clothes-drier" described in Sampson's patent was actually a rack for holding clothes near a stove, and was intended as an "improvement" on similar contraptions:

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-driers.... The object of my invention is to suspend clothing in close relation to a stove by means of frames so constructed that they can be readily placed in proper position and put aside when not required for use.
US patent #476416, 1892

Nineteen years earlier, there were already over 300 US patents for such "clothes-driers" (Subject-Matter Index of Patents...1790 to 1873).

A Frenchman named Pochon in 1799 built the first known tumble dryer — a crank-driven, rotating metal drum pierced with ventilation holes and held over heat. Electric tumble dryers appeared in the first half of the 20th century.

Black History Month

Myth Twelve & Thirteen

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions.It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions (whether they invented it or not).” I guess to this person, the truth doesn't matter. Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just correcting some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

For the record, I am not the author of the following.

Bicycle

Black "historians" like to say thatl the bicyle was invented by Isaac R. Johnson, a black "inventor" in 1899 because of a "patent" he received. The problem is his "invention" is a 100 years after French inventor Comte Mede de Sivrac and Karl von Sauerbronn built primitive versions of the bicycle in 1791 and 1816 respectively. The frame of John Starley's 1885 "safety bicycle" resembled that of a modern bicycle. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle

Cellular Phone

During Black History Month we are sometimes told that Henry T. Sampson invented the cell phone in 1971.

That’s a big fat No!

On July 6, 1971, Sampson and co-inventor George Miley received a patent on a "gamma electric cell" that converted a gamma ray input into an electrical output (Among the first to do that was Bernhard Gross, US patent #3122640, 1964). What, you ask, does gamma radiation have to do with cellular communications technology? The answer: Absoultely nothing! Some multiculturalist pseudo-historian must have seen the words "electric" and "cell" and thought "cell phone."

The father of the cell phone is Martin Cooper who first demonstrated the technology in 1973. Click here: http://forum.sdx-developers.com/frontpage-discussion/martin-cooper-cell-phone-inventor/

Black History Month
Myth Ten and Eleven

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions.It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions(whether they invented it or not).” I guess the truth doesn't matter.

Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just posting some corrections to some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

It seems people are confused when they hear that something has a U.S. Government Patent. The confusion is because people confused because they think when a person has a patent that means they invented something. However, a person can have a slightly different way to make a type writer and get a patent, but it doesn’t mean they invented the type writer. The same can be said for irons, egg beaters, electric skillet.

For the record, I am not the author of the following.

We are told that J. F. Pickering invented the Airship because he got a patent on a design in 1900, but that doesn’t mean he INVENTED the air ship.

French engineer Henri Giffard successfully flew a powered navigable airship in 1852. The La France airship built by Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs in 1884 featured an electric motor and improved steering capabilities. In 1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's first rigid-framed dirigible took to the air. Of the hundreds of inventors granted patents for early airship designs and modifications, few succeeded in building or flying their craft. There doesn't appear to be any record of a "Pickering Airship" ever getting off the ground. Check out: http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/PatentDatabase.html

Did black inventor Andrew Beard invent

the automatic railroad car coupler known

as the "Janney coupler" in 1897? No!

The Janney coupler is named for US Civil War veteran Eli H. Janney, who in 1873 invented a device (US patent #138405) which automatically linked together two railroad cars upon their being brought into contact. Also known as the "knuckle coupler," Janney's invention superseded the dangerous link-and-pin coupler and became the basis for standard coupler design through the remainder of the millennium. Andrew Beard's modified knuckle coupler was just one of approximately eight thousand coupler variations patented by 1900. See a history of the automatic coupler given in this law suit before the U.S. Supreme Court, click here: http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/us/516/400.html#t2 and also The Janney Coupler. Click here: http://www.narhf.org/nar01/NAR01awards_coupler.html

Black History Month
Myth Nine

All through the month of February we are instructed to celebrate Black History. We are going to do that by correcting some of the myths circulated throughout the month of February. Each day there will be another entry of the myths of black inventions.It appears the attitude of many people in our country are the same as those of the commenter on this blog a few days ago who stated, “Robb its pathetic you try to deny other races inventions(whether they invented it or not).”Actually, I am not trying to deny anybody anything, just posting some corrections to some myths that are circulated by anti-White zealots.

For the record, I am not the author of the following.

Air Conditioner

We are told that Frederick Jones
a black sciencetist invented the
air conditioner in 1949.
No, he didn't!

Dr. Willis Carrier built the first machine to control both the temperature and humidity of indoor air. He received the first of many patents in 1906 (US patent #808897, for the "Apparatus for Treating Air"). In 1911 he published the formulae that became the scientific basis for air conditioning design, and four years later formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation to develop and manufacture AC systems.
Read more on the true inventor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carrier