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Contributor(s): Author: MR Robin Walker Did YOU know that a camera invented by a Black astrophysicist was used during the Apollo 16 space mission to collect ultraviolet images photographed from the moon? In fact did you know any of the following facts? -An early eighteenth century Virginia slave developed effective treatments against skin and venereal disease. In fact: 'His work was so outstanding that in 1729 the Virginia Legislature bought him from his owner, thus freeing him from slavery, to practice medicine exclusively' - Astronomical works by a late eighteenth century Black mathematician and astronomer were widely read and 'became a household staple in early America along with the Bible' - A nineteenth century African American blacksmith patented an invention described as 'the most important single invention in the whole history of whaling' - A nineteenth century inventor of Black South American heritage created such a revolution in the shoe industry, that it was said of him: 'What Edison is to artificial lighting, he] is to footwear' - By 1913, African Americans held around 1,000 patents for various inventions in household goods, industrial machinery, transportation, electricity and chemical compounds - A Black physicist extended the Quantum Theory in the 1920s - Henry Ford described a Black botanist in the 1930s as 'the greatest living scientist' - Another Black chemist invented synthetic cortisone, an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis that broke the monopo

Blacks and Science Volume Three: African American Contributions to Science and Technology, Paperback/MR Robin Walker

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