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Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1856) was a leading abolitionist. He was a free black tradesman who operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City, New York and was the first African American to be grant...
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Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent.
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An improvement to the ironing board (U.S. Patent #473653) was invented by ... Thomas L. Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent (US ...
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African American Women Inventors: Historical The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences. ... First African American female patent holder ... Archia L. Ross; (New York, NY)
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John T. Hilton, Nathaniel and Thomas Paul, and James G. Barbodoes of Massachusetts; Henry Sipkins, Thomas Hamilton, Thomas L. Jennings, Thomas Downing, Samuel E. Cornish, and others of New York;
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created the first clock ever built in the United States ... first Black Presidential appointee ... developed the layout for the streets and monuments for the nation's capitol, Washington, D.C., including the White House, Capitol building and Treasury building...
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Those are many items that people use daily and don't realize that they were made by black inventors. The first black inventor to receive a patent from the United States Patent Office was Thomas L. Jennings in 1821. Jennings' patent was for a dry-cleaning process, "Dry scouring.";
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African American patent holders and individual biographies of African American inventors. Black History month and the historic contributions of black scientists and ... Thomas L. Jennings; Thomas L. Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent (US patent3306x), which was issued on March 3rd, 1821.
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MARCH 3 first black to receive a patent (1821) Thomas L. Jennings - dry cleaning process first university open to all races (1868) University of SC...
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