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Here are a few inventors who helped establish a better tomorrow. Brilliant minds are of all races and cultures making a better tomorrow. All comments belong to previous pinner unless otherwise stated

StairSteady inventor created the stability bar to aid stair-climbing/descending for individuals with limited mobility when she was only 16 yrs. old! Can be configurated in various ways.

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StairSteady Helps People Walk Up Stairs

The StairSteady was invented by Ruth Amos when she was just 16 years old (pictured!) to help those with limited mobility walk up and down stairs easier.

George Washington Carver ... this amazing man invented 500 uses for the peanut, lectured in botany at the Tuskegee institute, and was an outstanding artist & botanist, and a Christian gentleman.

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Scientist, Inventor. He developed three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes. Born a slave in 1864 on his father's farm near Diamond Grove, Missouri, as an infant he and his mother were kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly taken to Arkansas. His father,...

Television eyeglasses, 1963 - Hugo Gernsback, noted inventor, author, publisher, futurist and the creator of the modern science fiction genre wears a TV visor mock-up to illustrate something he thought would be invented in the coming years. Looks bonkers but he was right - you can buy video goggles today.

1963 ... television eyeglasses

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Samuel F. B. Morse

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Leonardo Da Vinci, known for some of my favorite inventions an ideas such as the Tank, machine gun an the glider.

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Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran. She was an investigative journalist who championed the poor and disenfranchised. Defying sexism and poor opportunities for young women at every turn, Bly gained fame and recognition by her distinctly empathetic and critical writing style and her willingness to undergo intense undercover investigations in order to expose corruption and its effects on the nation’s underprivileged. Inspiring woman! :)

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse was an amazing American who changed the world. He invented the air brake for trains. Until this invention, only locomotives had brakes and thousands died annually in train wrecks. Every train in the world today still uses his system. In addition, the AC power used all over the world was pioneered by Westinghouse. Edison wanted to use DC power because he could make more money but Nikolai Tesla convinced Westinghouse that AC was better . His impact on the world was huge.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford ..... I didn't know him but my Great Grandfather, Harley Furrow worked for him as his personal chef and lived with his family on his property. Henry Ford used to drive my Grandmother to school in Model Ts that weren't on the market yet in 1912.

Lady Edison

If inventors were as revered in the 19th century as they were in the 20th, Beulah Henry (1887-1973) would be famous. Though she had a role in over 100

Dr. Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3, 1904, in Washington, D.C. He was an African-American physician who developed ways to process and store blood plasma in "blood banks." He directed the blood plasma programs of the United States and Great Britain in World War II, but resigned after a ruling that the blood of African-Americans would be segregated.

Charles Drew

Charles Drew was an African American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.

JOHN MUIR, A MAN FOR THE AGES: He wore many hats in his lifetime. He worked as a farmer, a sheepherder and an inventor. But it was his work as an explorer, a naturalist, a conservationist, an environmentalist and a writer that made him a man for the ages. He founded the Sierra Club, convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to save our national parks, and gave us the gift of some of the most powerful words ever spoken about our country. #Roosevelt #nationalparks #conservation #nature

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John Muir: A Man for the Ages

JOHN MUIR, A MAN FOR THE AGES: He wore many hats in his lifetime. He worked as a farmer, a sheepherder and an inventor. But it was his work as an explorer, a naturalist, a conservationist, an environmentalist and a writer that made him a man for the ages. He founded the Sierra Club, convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to save our national parks, and gave us the gift of some of the most powerful words ever spoken about our country. #Roosevelt #nationalparks #conservation #nature

Jonas Salk was not just the inventor of the polio vaccine. He was a great humanitarian.

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In 1965, Lillian Gilbreth became the first female engineer to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

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Margaret E. Knight: 1838-1914; Margaret E. Knight was an American inventor. In 1868, she invented a machine that formed flat bottomed paper bags. Charles Annan, who was in the shop where Knight worked, stole and patented the device. Knight filed a successful patent interference lawsuit and co-established the Eastern Paper Bag Co. She was awarded the Decoration of the Royal Legion of Honour by Queen Victoria and was inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Titanic: Fashion From The Doomed 'Unsinkable' Ship (PHOTOS)

When the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage back in 1912, it was a momentous occasion. Hoping to be remembered as the most opulent passenger ship of it...

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

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