This database contains information from several published sources on notable African-American inventors and their patents. Inventor name, title of invention, patent number and patent issue date are included in each record.
African-Americans are still underrepresented in technology and the sciences; but great progress has been made since the 1960s, especially in the realm of higher education. Today, many universities, such as U. Cal. Berkeley and Purdue, have programs which
On this website, we try to put together, notable achievements by black people. Some inventions were small and some were big, yet we do not come across household names like we do with people like Alexander Graham Bell.
The Museum Of Black Inventors (MOBI) is a nonprofit museum dedicated to increasing awareness of Black Inventors of the contributions that helped build and stabilize our country. The founding principle is recognizing and appreciating all inventors and the