While most people will never actually get behind the wheel of a self-propelled street sweeper, without the Brooks-designed truck — equipped with trash-and-debris-pushing brushes — city streets would probably be much less clean. The Newark, New Jersey, native’s two other successful 1890s patents included dust-proof collection bags for his street sweeper, as well as aContinue reading “Charles B. Brooks”
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From the time European settlers began forcing Africans into the horrors of slavery in the early 17th-century American colonies, enslaver stole more than just these men and women’s freedom. Over the course of American slavery’s nearly 250-year history, these particular slaveholders also attempted to take credit for their enslaveds’ inventions, and, as such, there’s noContinue reading “10 Black Inventors Who Changed Your Life”
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