Frederick McKinley Jones
In 1940 Jones received a patent for a portable automatic refrigeration system for trucks after designing it in 1935. Now to many this may seem insignificant but imagine a world filled with trucks hauling, let’s say meat or veggies, without refrigeration.
Dr. Shirley Jackson
Jackson’s breakthrough research allowed others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind call waiting and caller ID. Now that’s what we call the alley-oop of science!
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10 African-American Inventors That Shifted Society was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
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