By any means necessary!!! In 1849,to escape 33 years of his life as a slave, Henry “Box” Brown shipped himself in a cargo box from Richmond, Virginia, to the abolitionist zone in Philadelphia. Henry Brown completed the 350-mile journey, barely breathing through the air holes he pierced in his 60-centimeter-wide cargo box, and spent the remaining 50 years of his life as a free person.
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February 2, 1897: Alfred Cralle was granted a U.S. patent for his invention of an ice cream mold and disher.. His functional design is reflected in modern ice cream scoops.
Alfred L. Cralle was a businessman and inventor. Cralle worked with his father in the carpentry trade as a young man and became interested in mechanics. He was sent to Washington, D.C. where he attended Wayland Seminary, one of a number of schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to help educate African-Americans after the Civil War.
Alfred Cralle settled in Pittsburgh where he served as a porter in Markell Brothers’ drug store and the St. Charles Hotel. While working as a porter, he noticed that ice cream, which had become a very popular, was difficult to dispense. It tended to stick to spoons and ladles, usually requiring use of two hands and at least two implements to serve.
INVENTION:
Cralle invented a mechanical device now known as the ice cream scoop and applied for a patent. His invention, originally called an “Ice Cream Mold and Disher” was designed to be able to keep ice cream and other foods from sticking, and easy to operate with one hand.
He designed it to be strong and durable, effective, inexpensive, so it could be constructed in almost any desired shape, such as a cone or a mound, with no delicate parts that could break or malfunction.
On June 10 1896, Alfred applied for a patent on his invention. He was awarded patent #576395 on February 2, 1897. His patent was an ice cream scoop with a built-in scraper to allow for one-handed operation.
LATER IN LIFE:
Cralle become a general manager for the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business association.
Alfred L. Cralle died from tuberculosis on May 6, 1919, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The first all-Black professional basketball team was organized on Feb. 13, 1923.The New York Renaissance, commonly called the Rens, become one of the dominant teams of the 1920s and 1930s.
The team’s founder was Robert L. Douglas, whose primary objective was to give New York City’s male, Black athletes opportunities to better themselves. In February 1923, Douglas struck an agreement with William Roach, a Harlem-based real estate developer who owned the New Renaissance Ballroom and Casino, and the Rens were born.
With Black players barred from professional basketball leagues, the Rens barnstormed throughout the country, often competing against all-white teams.
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In 1932, Richard B. Spikes received a patent for an automatic car gear shift. Big companies welcomed his inventions. Its patent #1889,814. By the time he created the automatic safety brake in 1962, Spikes was losing his vision. To complete the device, he first created a drafting machine for blind designers. The machine would soon be used in almost every school bus nationwide.
These are other inventions by Richard B. Spikes:
railroad semaphore (1906)
automatic car washer (1913)
automobile directional signals (1913)
beer keg tap (1910)
self-locking rack for billiard cues (1910)
continuous contact trolley pole (1919)
combination milk bottle opener and cover (1926)
method and apparatus for obtaining average samples and temperature of tank liquids (1931)
automatic gear shift (1932)
transmission and shifting thereof (1933)
automatic shoe shine chair (1939)
multiple barrel machine gun (1940)
horizontally swinging barber chair (1950)
automatic safety brake (1962) #WeAreHistory
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Black History 365🫶🏾….Sarah Boone was an African American inventor born (1832-1904) who on April 26, 1892, obtained United States patent rights for her improvements to the ironing board. Boone’s ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing sleeves and the bodies of women’s garments.
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December 29, 1790 marks the death of the famous mathematician Thomas Fuller, known as the “Mental Calculator”. Thomas Fuller was an African slave known for his skills in mathematics. He was captured in Africa by white slaves and shipped to the USA in 1724 when he was only 14.
He was so good at math, he could do unimaginable calculations. One day when they asked him how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in approximately two minutes, 47304000. Pro-abolitionists and white philanthropists used his talent as proof that Black slaves were equal to Whites in intelligence. Thomas Fuller, was a very great Mathematician, but unfortunately forgotten about history.
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Shalom,
I pray this post finds all is well. This year I’ve decided to bring back our Black History Month daily post(lol yeah I’ve gotten a late start here😅,but I’m on it on social media)! So today to start us off I’m sharing the amazing Richard H. Williams.
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Although humans have been developing ways to carry their young for thousands of years, the first baby carriage was invented in 1733 by William Kent for the Duke of Devonshire. As something made for a duke’s child is expected to be, it was extremely lavish and gilded with gold and silver and designed to be pulled by a miniature pony.
Due to the expensive price tag on early strollers, few could afford them. However, William H. Richardson from Baltimore Maryland in 1889 patented a new type of baby carriage. His idea was to use a special joint to allow a bassinet to be turned to face the operator.
Several changes were made that allowed his carriage for the wheel to turn individually, which meant that the vehicle could turn 360 degrees in a smaller turning radius. Due to this new design and affordability,stroller’s became more widely used.
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