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Inventors.
Patents, Prototypes, & Profits
The traffic light that saved your intersection. The pacemaker regulating a heartbeat. The filament in an incandescent bulb. Behind everyday objects sit patents filed by inventors who built the modern world, often in workshops and kitchens.
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Elijah McCoy
1844–1929
Inventors
Garrett Morgan
1877–1963
Inventors
Granville Woods
1856–1910
Inventors
Lewis Latimer
1848–1928
Inventors
Madam C. J. Walker
1867–1919
Inventors
Otis Boykin
1920–1982
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