In honor of Black History Month, WonderHowTo presents some of our favorite videos relating to devices, ideas, and technologies created by African American inventors.
In the early 1900s George Washington Carver, a former slave, became ...more
In the late 1980s to early 1990s two rival groups of hackers; the Legion of Doom (LOD) and Masters of Deception (MOD) were locked in an all ...more
When Joseph N. Jackson invented the programmable TV remote, he probably had no idea that he was helping to turn us all into couch potatoes ...more
According to etymologists, the term “cowboy” was originally a derogatory term used to refer to African American and Mexican ranch hands (the ...more
Even we at WonderHowTo owe a debt to John Thompson. From 1987 to 2001 Thompson was a chief scientist at Macromedia and invented the Lingo ...more
The son of former slaves, Garrett A. Morgan would grow up to become ...more
In 1853 African American/Native American chef George Crum was a chef in Saratoga Springs, NY. One day, an angry customer kept reordering his ...more
It would be inaccurate to say that Henry T. Sampson was the inventor of the cellular phone, but in 1971 he did invent the “gamma-electric ...more
