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Mr. Banneker invented the wooden pocket watch
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Born in 1822, Mr. Crum invented potato chips
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Born January 18, 1856, Mr. Daniel Hale Williams was an African-American physician who made history by performing the first successful open heart surgery.
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Born April 23, 1857, Mr. Woods invented more than a dozen devices to improve electric railway cars and many more for controlling the flow of electricity.
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Born September 4, 1866, Mr. Cralle invented the ice cream scooper.
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Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, Madame C.J. Walker invented hair products for African-American women.
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Born January 26, 1892, Ms. Coleman was the first female pilot of African-American desent and the first to hold an international pilot license.
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Born in 1914, Ms. Blount invented an eletrical device that would allow amputees to feed themselves. The device allowed a tube to deliver one mouthful of food at a time to a patient in a wheelchair or in a bed.
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Born July 1, 1936, Wallace Amos Jr. invented the well-known cookies "Famous Amos Cookies". Mr. Amos' first cookie shop opened in Los Angeles, California in 1975.
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Mr. Johnson invented the super soaker water gun, which of course gave children endless amounts of fun!
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