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1. Whats the name of the inventor who created the Video Game System? What exactly did he do?
2. Which Inventor was also the heavyweight boxing champion of the world? What did he Invent?
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Lonnie Johnson. Invented Super Soaker and Nerf Gun Toy



Gerald Lawson: Invented The Video Game System.



Marjorie Joyner. Invented The Wave Machine.



Sarah Boone. Inventor of the Ironing Board.



George Alcorn. Invented an imaging x-ray spectrometer.



Jack Johnson. Invented The Wrench



James Edward Maceo West. Invented The Microphone



Benjamin Banneker. Helped Organized The Grid of Wash DC



Lewis Howard Latimer. Invented The Lightbulb Wiring.



Janet Emerson Bashen. Invented Software for Equal Opportunity.



Patricia Bath. Invented The Laserphaco Probe for cataract



Garret Morgan. Invented First Gas Mask.

Inventors Change The World Forever.


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Lonnie Johnson. Invented Super Soaker and Nerf Gun Toys

Lonnie George Johnson is an American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is best known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys every year since its release.

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Gerald Lawson. Invented The Video Game "Console" System

Predating the release of Atari’s Video Computer System by a year, the Channel F was the first videogame machine that used interchangeable game cartridges, which Fairchild sold separately. Previous game machines like Atari’s Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey had all their games built into the hardware. Lawson’s pioneering design set the standard for the game consoles of today.

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Marjorie Joyner. Invented The Wave Machine

In 1939, she started looking for an easier way for black women to straighten their hair, taking her inspiration from a pot roast cooking with paper pins to quicken preparation time. Joyner experimented initially with these paper rods and soon designed a table that could be used to curl or straighten hair by wrapping it on rods above the person's head and then cooking them to set the hair. This method allowed hairstyles to last several days. Her patent for this design, (U.S. pat. #1,693,515) established her as the first African American woman to receive a patent. This claim is disputed by some who say that Sarah E. Goode was the first African American woman to hold a patent.

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Sarah Boone. Inventor of the Ironing Board

Sarah Boone was an African American inventor who on April 26, 1892, obtained United States patent rights for her improvements to the ironing board.

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George Alcorn. Invented an imaging x-ray spectrometer

George Edward Alcorn, Jr. is an American physicist and inventor who worked primarily for IBM and NASA. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015.

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Jack Johnson. Invented The Wrench

He defeated Tommy Burns for the title and thereby became the first Black man to hold the World Heavyweight Title. While in prison, Johnson found need for a tool which would help tighten of loosening fastening devices. He therefore crafted a tool and eventually patented it on April 18, 1922, calling it a wrench.

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James Edward Maceo West. Invented The Microphone

James Edward Maceo West is an American inventor and acoustician. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.

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Benjamin Banneker. Helped Organized The Grid of Wash DC

Benjamin Banneker was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

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Lewis Howard Latimer. Invented The Lightbulb Wiring.

He was an African-American engineer and inventor who was a member of Edison's research team, which was called "Edison's Pioneers." Latimer improved the newly-invented incandescent light bulb by inventing a carbon filament (which he patented in 1881).

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Janet Emerson Bashen. Invented Software for Monitoring Equal Opportunity Employment.

Janet Emerson Bashen is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business consultant. She patented a software program to assist with web-based equal employment opportunity investigations.

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Patricia Bath. Invented The Laserphaco Probe for cataract

She is the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986.

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Garret Morgan. Invented First Gas Mask

He was the subject of a newspaper feature in Cleveland, Ohio, for a heroic rescue in 1916 of workers trapped within a water intake tunnel, 50 ft (15 m) beneath Lake Erie.[2] He performed his rescue using a hood fashioned to protect his eyes from smoke and featuring a series of air tubes that hung near the ground to draw clean air beneath the rising smoke. This enabled Morgan to lengthen his ability to endure the inhospitable conditions of a smoke-filled room. Morgan is also credited as the first African American in Cleveland to own an automobile.[3] His other inventions include the development of a chemical for hair-straightening.

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