Black Inventor Posters and Art Prints
Description: Granville Tailer Woods was an African-American inventor who held more than 50 patents. He is also the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. One of his notable inventions was the Multiplex Telegraph, a device that sent messages between train stations and moving trains. His work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the United States. Woods developed several improvements to the railroad system, and was referred to by some as the "Black Edison." In 1885, Woods patented an apparatus which was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph. The device, which he called "tel...
Description: In black typewritten letters (Harting font) this column justified simple typography design quotes American inventor Thomas Edison: "It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people."
Description: George Washington Carver was a groundbreaking African American scientist and inventor known for his pioneering work in agricultural science and botany. Renowned for his research on alternative crops to cotton, Carver's innovations revolutionized farming practices and helped to alleviate poverty among Southern farmers, leaving an enduring legacy of scientific achievement and social progress.
Description: It started in 1947 in honor of George Washington Carver (African American figure), a noteworthy agricultural scientist, and inventor. It not only celebrates this remarkable innovator who was part of a marginalized community. It also honors his invention, which ended up helping farmers around the country, and produced enough food to feed and keep the United States sustained during the Second World War.
Description: This African American history design shows custom art. Ideal black history gift for black and educated melanin queen or black king with african heritage or black pride who remembers their roots.
Martin Luther King Jr Watercolor Portrait for Black History Month Posters and Art
by HistoryMakers
$13
Description: Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and draftsman. Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, the youngest of four children of Rebecca Latimer (1826–1910) and George Latimer (July 4, 1818– May 29, 1896). George Latimer had been the slave of James B. Gray of Virginia. George Latimer ran away to freedom in Boston, Massachusetts, in October 1842, along with his mother Rebecca, who had been the slave of another man. When Gray, the owner, appeared in Boston to take them back to Virginia, it became a noted case in the movement for abolition of slavery, gaining the involvement of such abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison. Eventually funds were raised to pay...
Description: This African American history design shows custom art. Ideal black history gift for black and educated melanin queen or black king with african heritage or black pride who remembers their roots.
George Washington Carver Watercolor Portrait for Black History Month Posters and Art
by HistoryMakers
$13
Description: John P. Parker (1827 – February 4, 1900) was an American abolitionist, inventor, iron moulder and industrialist. Parker, who was African American, helped hundreds of slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad resistance movement based in Ripley, Ohio. He rescued fugitive slaves for nearly fifteen years. He was one of the few blacks to patent his inventions before 1900. His house in Ripley has been designated a National Historic Landmark and restored. Parker was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of a slave mother and white father. Born into slavery under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, at the age of eight John was forced to walk to Richmond, where he was sold at the slave market to a doctor from Mobile, Alabama.[2] Whi...
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