Appreciating African Culture

Some have suggested that I don't appreciate or respect the value of African culture. To prove them wrong please watch these two videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2oRlK_wI_s&feature=related also this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIuDeoOERe0

Please don't send me any nasty comments, because if you find this revolting and call me a racist for posting it, it actually means you are the racist because it is you that cannot see the beauty of this African cultural tradition.

Black History Month
Myth Thirty and Thirty-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.

We are told that William Barry, a Negro, invented the

Postmarking and Canceling Machine
in 1897?

This didn't happen either.

He did get a patent - but a patent is NOT an invention
Try Pearson Hill of England, in 1857. Hill's machine marked the postage stamp with vertical lines and postmark date. By 1892, US post offices were using several brands of machines, including one that could cancel, postmark, count and stack more than 20,000 pieces of mail per hour (Marshall Cushing, Story of Our Post Office, Boston: A. M. Thayer & co., 1892, pp.189-191). See about the origin of the canceling machine here: http://postalheritage.org.uk/collections/museum/postalmechanisation/cancelling/

It is amazing that there are people who actulally

believe that Negro, W.A. Lavalette

invented "the advanced printing press" in 1878?

That is what black "historians" tell others.

But after reading this you will know better!

Movable-type printing first appeared in East Asia. In Europe, around 1455, Johann Gutenberg adapted the screw press used in other trades such as winemaking and combined it with type-metal alloy characters and oil-based printing ink. Major advances after Gutenberg include the cylinder printing press (c. 1811) by Frederick Koenig and Andreas Bauer, the rotary press (1846) by Richard M. Hoe, and the web press (1865) by William Bullock. Major advances do not include Lavalette's patent, which was only one of 3,268 printing patents granted in the US by the year 1888 (Butterworth, Growth of Industrial Art). See History of the printing press by clicking here: http://web.archive.org/web/20031206184536/www.printersmark.com/Pages/Hist3.html

Black History Month
Myth Twenty-Eight

and Twenty-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).” 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.

So maybe the Pencil Sharpener

was invented by Negro
John Lee Love in 1897?

BLACK HISTORY TELLS US IT WAS

TRUTH TELLS US THAT THEY ARE LYING AGAIN!

Bernard Lassimone of Limoges, France invented one of the earliest sharpeners, receiving French patent number 2444 in 1828. An apparent ancestor of the 20th-century hand-cranked sharpener was patented by G. F. Ballou in 1896 (US #556709) and marketed by the A.B. Dick Company as the "Planetary Pencil Pointer." As the user held the pencil stationary and turned the crank, twin milling cutters revolved around the tip of the pencil and shaved it into a point.
Love's patent #594114 shows a variation on a different kind of sharpener, in which one would crank the pencil itself around in a stirring motion. An earlier device of a similar type was devised in 1888 by G.H. Courson (patent #388533), and sold under the name "President Pencil Sharpener."
Here are several other examples of 19th century sharpeners:Early Mechanical Pencil SharpenersMechanical Pencil Sharpener Gallery ~ 1884-1899

Read about about the history of the pencil sharpener here: http://www.officemuseum.com/pencil_sharpeners.htm

Read about the mechanical pencil sharpener here: http://www.officemuseum.com/sharpener_gallery_1800s.htm

No! Negress Majorie Joyner did not invent the first

Permanent Wave Machine (for perming hair)

That would be German hairdresser Karl Ludwig Nessler (aka Charles Nestlé) no later than 1906. Read more about the history of Permed hair here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2_1ux8cTmxYJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perm_(hairstyle)+%22karl+OR+charles+OR+ludwig+nessler+OR+nestle+OR+nestl%C3%A9%22+1904..1906&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

Black History Month
Myth Twenty-Six and

Twenty-Seven

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.

Did Negroes P. Downing and George Beckett invent
the Postal Mail Drop Box and the personal mail box.
They SURE DID - not!

The US Postal Service says that "Street boxes for mail collection began to appear in large [US] cities by 1858." They appeared in Europe even earlier, according to historian Laurin Zilliacus:
Mail boxes as we understand them first appeared on the streets of Belgian towns in 1848. In Paris they came two years later, while the English received their 'pillar boxes' in 1855.
Laurin Zilliacus, Mail for the World, p. 178 (New York, J. Day Co., 1953)
From the same book (p.178), "Private mail boxes were invented in the United States in about 1860."
Eventually, letter drop boxes came equipped with inner lids to prevent miscreants from rummaging through the mail pile. The first of many US patents for such a purpose was granted in 1860 to John North of Middletown, Connecticut (US Pat. #27466). See http://www.ehow.com/facts_5601864_history-mail-boxes.html

To help us have clean homes
Negro Thomas Stewart invented
The Mop in 1893!
Actually this one is TRUE- He
Did invent the mop!
Ok! It’s a joke - he didn’t do it!

Mops go back a long, long way before 1893. Just how long, is hard to determine. Restricting our view to the modern era, we find that the United States issued its first mop patent (#241) in 1837 to Jacob Howe, called "Construction of Mop-Heads and the Mode of Securing them upon Handles." One of the first patented mops with a built-in wringer was the one H. & J. Morton invented in 1859 (US #24049).
The mop specified in Stewart's patent #499402 has a lever-operated clamp for "holding the mop rags"; the lever is not a wringing mechanism as erroneously reported on certain websites. Other inventors had already patented mops with lever-operated clamps, one of the first being Greenleaf Stackpole in 1869 (US Pat. #89803). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mop

Black History Month
Myth twenty-Four

and Twenty-Five

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.

Also you need to remember that for each of these patents that are issued - there were hundreds of others also issued to many people. Most patents, however, prove to be impractical and therefore never used.

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

Lawn Mower
Did Negro John Burr get a patent for a lawn mower in 1899? - Yes.

Did he invent the laws mower"

That would be a NO!

English engineer Edwin Budding invented the first reel-type lawn mower (with blades arranged in a cylindrical pattern) and had it patented in England in 1830. In 1868 the United States issued patent #73807 to Amariah M. Hills of Connecticut, who went on to establish the Archimedean Lawn Mower Co. in 1871. By 1888, the US Patent Office had granted 138 patents for lawn mowers (Butterworth, Growth of Industrial Art). Doubtlessly there were even more by the time Burr got his patent in 1899.
Some website authors want Burr to have invented the first "rotary blade" mower, with a centrally mounted spinning blade. But his patent #624749 shows yet another twist on the old reel mower, differing in only a few details with Budding's original. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t1JUQiKEahoJ:www.american-lawns.com/history/history_mower.html+history+of+lawn+mowers&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

Did Negroes J. H. Smith get a

lawn sprikler patent in 1897 along

with Elijah McCoy in 1899?

Yes, they did get a patent - along with

a gazillion other people.

Did they INVENT the lawn sprinkler?

Nope! Didn't do it!

But they did have very nice drawings on their patent request!

The first US patent with the title "lawn sprinkler" was issued to J. Lessler of Buffalo, New York in 1871 (#121949). Early examples of water-propelled, rotating lawn sprinklers were patented by J. Oswald in 1890 (#425340) and J. S. Woolsey in 1891 (#457099) among many others.
Smith's patent shows just another rotating sprinkler, and McCoy's 1899 patent was simply forfor a turtle-shaped sprinkler. To learn more about sprinklers click here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vc7bXmgNOl8J:www.gardenguides.com/132342-history-lawn-sprinkler.html+history+of+lawn+sprinklers&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

Black History Month

Myth Twenty-Two

and Twenty-Three

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.

Horseshoe
Did Negro, Oscar E. Brown invent the horseshoe in 1892?

Didn't do it!

Some sources on the web, if not ignorant enough to say Brown invented the first horseshoe ever, will at least try to credit him for the first double or compound horseshoe made of two layers: one permanently secured to the hoof, and one auxiliary layer that can be removed and replaced when it wears out. However, in the US there were already 39 earlier patents for horseshoes using that same concept. The first of these was issued to J.B. Kendall of Boston in 1861, patent #33709. Read about horseshoes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe

Ice Cream
Was it a black man, Augustus Jackson

who invented Ice Cream in 1832?

Nope!

In Europe, sherbet-like concoctions evolved into ice cream by the 16th century, and around 1670 or so, the Café Procope in Paris offered creamy frozen dairy desserts to the public. The first written record of ice cream in the New World comes from a letter dated 1700, attesting that Maryland Governor William Bladen served the treat to his guests. In 1777, the New York Gazette advertised the sale of ice cream by confectioner Philip Lenzi. Click here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XhXvSfPRXu4J:inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/ice_cream.htm+%22history+of+ice+cream%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

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