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African American Scientists and Inventors

Match the scientists/inventors with their contributions

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Alexander Miles, Automatic Elevator Doors
Ben Carson, Neurosurgeon and politician know for his conjoined twin separation surgery
Benjamin Banneker, Almanac and America's First Clock
Charles Drew, Blood Bank Collection and Storage
Daniel Hale WIlliams, Surgeon who performed the first successful open-heart surgery
Elijah McCoy, Oiling System for Train Engines
Ernest Everett Just, Biologist known for his studies of fertilization and early development in marine invertebrates
Garrett Morgan, Gas Mask and Traffic Signal
George Crum, Potato Chips
George Washington Carver, Inventor of crop rotation methods for agriculture and peanut products
Granville T. Woods, Induction telegraph machine to help trains communicate
James West, Inventor of a compact, highly sensitive microphone
Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Machine that secured the top of a shoe to the sole
Lewis Latimer, Carbon filament for an incandescent light bulb
Lonnie G. Johnson, NASA engineer who invented the Super Soaker
Madam CJ Walker, Hair & beauty products for African American women
Mark Dean, Co-inventor of the IBM personal computer
Norbert Rillieux, Chemical engineer known for transforming the sugar refining process
Otis Boykin, Pacemaker Control Unit
Patricia Bath, Eye surgery laser tool to correct cataracts
Percy Julian, Chemist who synthesized medical drugs such as cortisone, steroids, and birth control pills

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