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Thread ID: 12353 | Posts: 14 | Started: 2004-02-16
2004-02-16 02:52 | User Profile
If anyone has AOL, in honor of Black History month, they're showing snippets of miscellany that were supposedly created by blacks. The first one I saw was for an iron. Was the iron invented by a Negro? Right now they're showing a picture of a traffic signal and supposedly that was also invented by a Negro. With regards to the ubiquitous peanut butter, I read in a cookbook published a little over a decade ago that it was created by a St. Louis doctor in 1890, with no reference to the race of the creator. I have a feeling next time they'll tell us that email was invented by a Negro.
2004-02-16 04:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robbie]If anyone has AOL, in honor of Black History month, they're showing snippets of miscellany that were supposedly created by blacks. The first one I saw was for an iron. Was the iron invented by a Negro? Right now they're showing a picture of a traffic signal and supposedly that was also invented by a Negro. With regards to the ubiquitous peanut butter, I read in a cookbook published a little over a decade ago that it was created by a St. Louis doctor in 1890, with no reference to the race of the creator. I have a feeling next time they'll tell us that email was invented by a Negro.[/QUOTE]
Kellogs, of Kellog's cereal, has a patent for a machine that makes peanut butter, long before Carver was around. Carver has three patents relating to making stain from soybeans. Armed with this knowledge, you might claim that blacks invented stain, and paint.
You know white people were ironing clothes thousands of years before blacks ever wore anything to be ironed.
Traffic Signals or Traffic Lights The world's first traffic lights were installed near London's House of Commons (intersection of George and Bridge Streets) in 1868. They were invented by J P Knight.
Among the many early traffic signals or lights created the following are noted:
Earnest Sirrine of Chicago, Illinois patented (976,939) perhaps the first automatic street traffic system in 1910. Sirrine's system used the non illuminated words "stop" and "proceed".
Lester Wire of Salt Lake City, Utah invented (unpatented) an electric traffic light in 1912 that used red and green lights.
James Hoge patented (1,251,666) manually controlled traffic lights in 1913, which were installed in Cleveland, Ohio a year later by the American Traffic Signal Company. Hoge's electric-powered lights used the illuminated words "stop" and "move".
William Ghiglieri of San Francisco, California patented (1,224,632) perhaps the first automatic traffic signal using colored lights (red and green) in 1917. Ghiglieri's traffic signal had the option of being either manual or automatic.
Around 1920, William Potts a Detroit policeman, invented (unpatented) several automatic electric traffic light systems including an overhanging four-way, red, green, and yellow light system. The first to use a yellow light.
Garrett Morgan was issued a patent for an inexpensive to produce manual traffic signal in 1923.
The above is only a partial list. Morgan, the alleged black inventor, is last on that list. When you hear someone say a black guy invented the modern traffic signal, remember this stupid, hand-cranked T-shaped thing.
[IMG]http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/img/media/xl/705.jpg[/IMG]
2004-02-16 04:48 | User Profile
Here is some general negro trivia: most successful Blacks are not Black but mulatto instead, or have some European blood.
Who'da thunkit?
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2004-02-16 05:10 | User Profile
Clip 'n' save!
[url]http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/AWARE/archives/invent.html[/url]
"Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes." ~ African Proverb
the african american invention express Product Inventor Date ======= ======== =====
air conditioning unit [B]Frederick M. Jones[/B] July 12, 1949 almanac [B]Benjamin Banneker[/B] Approx 1791 auto cut-off switch [B]Granville T. Woods[/B] January 1, 1839 auto fishing devise [B]G. Cook[/B] May 30, 1899 automatic gear shift [B]Richard Spikes[/B] February 28, 1932 baby buggy [B]W.H. Richardson[/B] June 18, 1899 bicycle frame [B]L.R. Johnson[/B] October 10, 1899 biscuit cutter [B]A.P. Ashbourne[/B] November 30, 1875 blood plasma bag [B]Charles Drew [/B] Approx. 1945 cellular phone [B]Henry T. Sampson[/B] July 6, 1971 chamber commode [B]T. Elkins[/B] January 3, 1897 clothes dryer [B]G. T. Sampson[/B] June 6, 1862 curtain rod [B]S. R. Scratton[/B] November 30, 1889 curtain rod support [B]William S. Grant [/B] August 4, 1896 door knob [B]O. Dorsey[/B] December 10, 1878 door stop [B]O. Dorsey[/B] December 10, 1878 dust pan [B]Lawrence P. Ray[/B] August 3, 1897 egg beater [B]Willie Johnson[/B] February 5, 1884 electric lampbulb [B]Lewis Latimer[/B] March 21, 1882 elevator [B]Alexander Miles[/B] October 11, 1867 eye protector [B]P. Johnson[/B] November 2, 1880 fire escape ladder [B]J. W. Winters[/B] May 7, 1878 fire extinguisher [B]T. Marshall[/B] October 26, 1872 folding bed [B]L. C. Bailey[/B] July 18, 1899 folding chair [B]Brody & Surgwar[/B] June 11, 1889 fountain pen [B]W. B. Purvis[/B] January 7, 1890 furniture caster [B]O. A. Fisher[/B] 1878 gas mask [B]Garrett Morgan[/B] October 13, 1914 golf tee [B]T. Grant[/B] December 12, 1899 guitar [B]Robert F. Flemming, Jr.[/B] March 3, 1886 hair brush [B]Lydia O. Newman[/B] November 15, 18-- hand stamp [B]Walter B. Purvis[/B] February 27 1883 horse shoe [B]J. Ricks[/B] March 30, 1885 ice cream scooper [B]A. L. Cralle[/B] February 2, 1897 improv. sugar making [B]Norbet Rillieux[/B] December 10, 1846 insect-destroyer gun [B]A. C. Richard[/B] February 28, 1899 ironing board [B]Sarah Boone[/B] December 30, 1887 key chain [B]F. J. Loudin[/B] January 9, 1894 lantern [B]Michael C. Harvey[/B] August 19, 1884 lawn mower [B]L. A. Burr[/B] May 19, 1889 lawn sprinkler [B]J. W. Smith[/B] May 4, 1897 lemon squeezer [B]J. Thomas White[/B] December 8, 1893 lock [B]W. A. Martin[/B] July 23, 18-- lubricating cup [B]Ellijah McCoy[/B] November 15, 1895 lunch pail [B]James Robinson[/B] 1887 mail box [B]Paul L. Downing[/B] October 27, 1891 mop [B]Thomas W. Stewart[/B] June 11, 1893 motor [B]Frederick M. Jones[/B] June 27, 1939 peanut butter [B]George Washington Carver[/B] 1896 pencil sharpener [B]J. L. Love[/B] November 23, 1897 phone transmitter [B]Granville T. Woods[/B] December 2, 1884 record player arm [B]Joseph Hunger Dickenson[/B] January 8, 1819 refrigerator [B]J. Standard[/B] June 14, 1891 riding saddles [B]W. D. Davis[/B] October 6, 1895 rolling pin [B]John W. Reed[/B] 1864 shampoo headrest [B]C. O. Bailiff [/B] October 11, 1898 spark plug [B]Edmond Berger [/B] February 2, 1839 stethoscope [B]Imhotep[/B] Ancient Egypt stove [B]T. A. Carrington[/B] July 25, 1876 straightening comb [B]Madam C. J. Walker[/B] Approx 1905 street sweeper [B]Charles B. Brooks [/B] March 17, 1890 thermostat control [B]Frederick M. Jones[/B] February 23, 1960 traffic light [B]Garrett Morgan[/B] November 20, 1923 tricycle [B]M. A. Cherry[/B] May 6, 1886 typewriter [B]Burridge & Marshman[/B] April 7, 1885
2004-02-16 05:28 | User Profile
Hilarious. I am wondering if the negroes mentioned were even within a mile of the real inventors, while sweeping the floors.
2004-02-16 05:33 | User Profile
Well, Spider...I'll give 'em the dust pan. And who else would need to invent a hair-straightener?
But sorry, Dr. Carver, the Thais had peanut-butter a millenium ago. :afro:
2004-02-16 06:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Howard Campbell, Jr.]Well, Spider...I'll give 'em the dust pan. And who else would need to invent a hair-straightener?[/QUOTE]
You're far too generous.
2004-02-16 06:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robbie]If anyone has AOL, in honor of Black History month, they're showing snippets of miscellany that were supposedly created by blacks. The first one I saw was for an iron. Was the iron invented by a Negro? Right now they're showing a picture of a traffic signal and supposedly that was also invented by a Negro. With regards to the ubiquitous peanut butter, I read in a cookbook published a little over a decade ago that it was created by a St. Louis doctor in 1890, with no reference to the race of the creator. I have a feeling next time they'll tell us that email was invented by a Negro.[/QUOTE]
Your guys are going to get into trouble saying that the blacks invented all that, you are suppose to say that it was the Jews,,,,, unless you want to be called "anti-semitic",,,,,,,,,,,, hey froggie, thanks for the list.
2004-02-16 06:22 | User Profile
The scary part of this nonsense is that it is now holy writ: it's textbook 'history'. Cleotis can point to any number of widely-respected, mainstream information resources to 'prove' that Whitey not only mulewhipped his great-great-uncle Neckmeat, but that he stole Neckmeat's schematic drawings for the first turbine accelerator an' shit. He can ask his teacher point blank and receive a govt-mandated affirmative response.
Our descendants will watch televised panel discussions where renowned experts will preface their remarks with, "Well as we all know, African-Americans gave us the ravioli crimper, the internal combustion engine, penicillin and the concept of 'pants'" [I]and they'll never blink![/I]
Nahh. Who am I trying to kid? Our descendants will, of course, all be living in caves and shell holes in the hills, wearing goat pelts and foraging for food that doesn't glow in the dark. They wouldn't recognize a televitz if a ni**er invented one right in front of them.
2004-02-16 06:43 | User Profile
I don't think that nonsense is academically approved -- just fantasies of some afreaking student organization on crack.
2004-02-16 06:49 | User Profile
Let's hope so. But I have my doubts.
2004-02-16 06:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]I don't think that nonsense is academically approved -- just fantasies of some afreaking student organization on crack.[/QUOTE]
But any academician who spoke up to disprove it would be unemployed--and blacklisted in short order.
The Regime is a card-house of lies.
2004-02-16 07:23 | User Profile
There is nothing to disprove yet: the legends of afreaking inventors aren't part of the academic world. Heck, even now when they are on the lookout for negroes to hire, the scientific area is practically devoid of them.
2004-02-16 07:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Franco]Here is some general negro trivia: most successful Blacks are not Black but mulatto instead, or have some European blood.[/QUOTE]
Most of these alleged inventors were [B]educated by White Men![/B]
If a White Man had not been around to give them a [I]western education[/I], they would not have been able to invent anything.