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WorksheetsAfrican American Inventors
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 35mins
He was a scientist and loved to study plants. He developed over 300 ways to use peanuts!
Otis Boykin
George Washington Carver
This inventor worked at NASA & built spacecrafts. He is also famous for inventing the super soaker water gun.
Lonnie Johnson
Alexander Miles
She was the first African American woman to be a millionaire selling her hair care products.
Madam C J Walker
Dr. Betty Harris
Garrett Morgan invented this to make sure firefighters are safe from harmful gas they are exposed to. What is it?
Umbrella
Gas Mask
Garrett Morgan invented something that keeps us safe on the road. What is it?
Windshield wipers
Traffic Light
What is the name of the first African American Woman to go into space in 1992?
Mae Jemison
Dr. Patricia Bath
This inventor and surveyor constructed the first clock in the US in 1753. He was also commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to help survey and develop the layout of Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Banneker
William Purvis
This inventor became the originator of the home security system in 1966.
Otis Boykin
Marie Brown
Dr. Charles Drew thought of and organized something that saves millions of lives. What did he invent?
Blood Bank
The Lottery
He is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, &former NASA astronaut who was the first African American in space in 1983.
Guion Bluford
Jacob Lawrence
He was a carpenter and inventor in Fall River, Massachusetts best known for patenting a portable pencil sharpener known as the "Love Sharpener."
John Love
Thomas Jennings
Like a good water gun battle John Woo style? You can thank this NASA engineer for inventing the Super Soaker.
Lonnie G. Johnson
Otis Boykin
Thomas L. Jennings was the frist African-American to receive a patent. What invention was it for?
A cotton spinner
A dry cleaning process
This inventor discovered more than 300 uses for the peanut and developed a crop rotation method for southern farmers. Who was he?
George Washington Carver
Lewis Latimer
This person is an award-winning African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He invented the ultraviolet camera/spectograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.
George Carruthers
Garrett Morgan
This person was the inventor of the automatic shoe laster, which revolutionized the shoemaking industry.
Gerald Lawson
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
This self made millionaire invented a cream to help hair grow back.
Marie Brown
Madam C. J. Walker
After accidently slicing potatoes too thin, he created the potato chip.
George Crum
Lewis Latimer
This person invented a device that revolutionized sugar processing.
Norbert Rillieux
Garrett Morgan
American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author, writer and editor. First African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. Helped create NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909
Langston Hughes
W.E.B. DuBois
