INVENTORS

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INVENTORS

• Lorrie Sanford
• Caitlyn Lock
• Peyton Sowell
• Cait Sparks
• Brandon Alloway
• Doran Motley

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CONTENTS

• LorrieJan Ernst Matzeliger
• Caitlyn..Lewis Latimer
• Peyton..Granville T. Woods
• CaitLonnie G. Johnson
• Doran..Garrett Morgan
• Brandon..George Carruthers

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Jan E. Matzeliger
1852-1889

• CHILDHOOD
• Jan E. Matzeligers childhood was a rough one he
  couldnt speak English, and he didnt have any
  friends. He also found himself going to work with
  his dad. He was also was pitied on and finally
  let into a church. He started work at age ten. He
  had no tine for school.

EDCUTATION
?UNKNOWN ?
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ADULTLIFE

• He spent most of his adultlife working in a shoe
  company. He lived in the shoe capital, Lynn ,
  Massachusetts. His co workers said he couldnt
  build a machine that could take the job of the
  shoe lasters. He didnt believe them.
• He spent most of his time, after work, at a
  school and learned how to read English and speak
  it. Then he started to read books on physics and
  stared to experiment on his machine.
• Jan died poor, but his stock in the machine was
  quite valuable. He left it to his friends and to
  the First Christ of God in Lynn, Massachusetts.

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WORKS

• Jan E. Matzeliger is famous because he invented a
  machine that could do a hand lasters job. Which
  is to attach the sole to the shoe in one minute.

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Lewis Howard Latimer
September 4, 1848-December , 1928 11
CHILDHOOD
Lewis didnt have the best childhood, His parents
were runaway slaves and eventually were
assisnated. Then Lewis went to live with his
brother.
EDUCATION
Unknown
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Adult life

• Lewis had an ok adult life ,but nobody really
  liked him.
• Lewis Howard Latimer was the only African
  American member of Thomas A. Edison research team
  of noted scientist . Thomas thought Lewis was so
  good that he started advertising him then
  everybody wanted Lewis to work for him.

WORKS
He was board and he started to put wires
together and he push this button and he was
shocked that it worked.
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GRANVILLE T. WOODS
1856-1910

CHILDHOOD

• He learned from his jobs , and that lead him to
  his invention. Granville T. Woods is known to
  many as The Black Edison , because both were
  great inventors who came from disadvantage
  childhoods.

EDUCATION

• Granville dropped out of formal school at age 10.
  He basically learned his skills as a machinists
  blacksmith. Woods was considered fortunate to
  receive an education to help him on the road to
  his invention. Woods father educated himself by
  working in railroad, machine, shops, and steel
  mills , and by reading electricity.

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ADULTLIFE

• Granville T. Woods was a great and a inventive
  genius. Granvilles talents could not go
  unnoticed. Granville invented fifteen appliances
  for electric railways. He spent his adult life
  learning from his skills.

WORKS

• Granville became an engineer, and he invented
  electrical stuff , and mechanical inventions.
  Granville had established his own shop in
  Cincinnati, Ohio. He sold many of his inventions
  . Granville invented many railways. He also
  educated himself by working in railroad machine
  shops and steel mills, and by reading about
  electricity.

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GARRETT MORGAN

• 1877-1963

CHILDHOOD
Garrett at the early age of 14 decided that he
should travel north to Ohio in order to receive a
better education.
EDUCATION
Morgan opened a tailoring shop selling coats,
suits, and dresses. Working in this shop he came
upon his first invention.
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Lonnie G. Johnson

• 1949-present
• Childhood
• He was an African American inventor by the age of
  18.
• He was a businessman, and mathmation.
• From mobile, Alabama at the age 18 he was awarded
  first place in the national science fair for the
  invention of a remote control robot. Johnson used
  junk yard scrapes.
• Education
• Johnson graduated from the Tuskegee University he
  got in with a math scholarship.
• He was elected Pi Tau Sigma national engineering
  Honor society.

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EDUCATION

• Johnson got his bachelors degree of science in
  Mechanical Engineering in 1972
• He completed his masters degree of science in
  Nuclear Engineering two years later.
• ADULT LIFE
• After he joined the air force as Captain Johnson
  he was awarded the air achievement medal once.
• Then he won the air force commendation medal
  twice.
• After that he became the space systems
  requirement officer.

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WORKS

• In 1985, he founded his own company.
• During this time he had first achieved his most
  famous invention in 1982. When a homemade nozzle
  at his bathroom sink shot out o spray of water
  across the room . He resolved to have invented
  the worlds first high performance ,pressurized
  water gun. Johnson's partner Druce DAndrade
  finally created a working super soaker in 1989.

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GARRETT MORGAN

• 1877-1963

CHILDHOOD

• Garrett at the early age of 14 decided that he
  should travel north to Ohio in order to receive a
  better education.

EDUCATION
Morgan opened a tailoring shop selling coats,
suits, and dresses. Working in this shop he came
upon his first invention.
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ADULT LIFE

• Morgan made another invention. This invention was
  called the gas mask. The bottom of the tube was
  lined with a sponge type material which reached
  near the ground and allowed in clean air. There
  were 32 workers underground in a tunnel and it
  was a full of smoke. The crown erupted in a
  staggering applause and Garrett and Frank
  reentered the tunnel and while they were unable
  to save all of the workers , they saved some of
  the workers who would have died. Then he was in
  the newspapers an he received a gold medal.

WORKS

• What made Garrett Morgan famous is that people
  realized that Garrett Morgan just wasnt making
  inventions he was making safe invention to make
  the world a safer place.

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WHAT MADE THEM FAMOUS

• One day Garrett witnessed a traffic accident when
  an automobile collided with a horse and carriage.
  The driver was knocked unconscious Garrett set
  out to develop a means of automatically directing
  traffic without the need of a policemen. He
  patend an automatic traffic signal Garrett
  invented a traffic light. At that point Morgan
  was honored by many influential people around him.

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GEORGE CARRUTHERS
1939- PRESENT

CHILDHOOD

• He was raised in South Side Chicago. At the age
  of 10 he built a telescope.

EDUCATION
He didnt do well in school studying math and
pysics . He had a lot of science fair awards. Dr.
Caruthers graduated from Engle Wood high
school. Then he attended the University of
Illinois.
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ADULT LIFE

• 1993 Dr. Caruthers was one of the first hundred
  recipients of the Black Engineer of the year
  award honored by US Black Engineer. He was also
  worked with NRLs community Outreach Program and
  several outside education and community outreach
  organizations in support of educational
  activities in science at Ballou High School and
  other DC area schools.

WORKS

• Carruthers is best known for having found the
  proof of molecular hydrogen in interstellar
  space. Spectrographs are images which use a prism
  (or a diffraction grating ) to show the spectrum
  of light produced by an element or elements.

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Works Cited

• "Garrett Morgan." Black Inventor. 24 Jan. 2007
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  htmlgt.
• "George R. Carruthers." Inventors.About. 24 Jan.
  2007 lthttp//www.inventors.about.com/library/carru
  thers.htmlgt.
• "Granville T. Woods." Webfiles.Uci.Edu. 24 Jan.
  2007 lthttp//www.webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/
  woods.htmlgt.
• "Jan Matzeliger." Inventors.Org. 24 Jan. 2007
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  er/htmlgt.
• "Lewis Howard Latimer." Idea Finder. 24 Jan. 2007
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  ergt.
• "Lonnie G. Johnson." WebFiles.Uci.Edu. 24 Jan.
  2007 lthttp//www.webfile.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/w
  oods.htmlgt.

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