Powerful Black Minds - Beyond Entertainment

[EdJo]

Walter S. McAfee (September 2, 1914 - February 18, 1990) was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world's first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana.

Mathematician and astrophysicist Walter S. McAfee completed the calculations that led to some of America's finest scientific accomplishments like space travel, satellite communications and missile guidance systems.
But McAfee's skill had almost been missed. His resume — and required photograph that revealed he was black — had been rejected for numerous federal positions before he was hired at Camp Evans, then known as Evan's Signal Laboratory.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...fee-camp-evans-satellite-technology/98134138/

 

[EdJo]

Yacouba Sawadogo

Yacouba Sawadogo is a farmer from Burkina Faso who has been successfully using a traditional farming technique called Zaï to restore soils damaged by desertification and drought. A documentary feature film The Man Who Stopped the Desert first screened in the UK portrays his life.

Zaï or Tassa is a farming technique to dig pits (20-30 cm long and deep and 90 cm apart) in the soil during the preseason to catch water and concentrate compost. The technique is traditionally used in western Sahel (Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali) to restore degraded drylands and increase soil fertility.
Zaï holes were reintroduced since the 1980s by Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer from Burkina Faso, who introduced the innovation of filling them with manure and compost to provide plant nutrients. The manure attracts termites, whose tunnels help further break up the soil. He also slightly increased the size of the holes over the traditional models. Zaï holes help by improving the yields of trees, sorghum, and millet by up to 500 percent.



This guy is a legend!!!!!

 

[EdJo]

‘Smart sensors change the world’, a research project headed by Huibregtsen-nominee professor Kofi Makinwa

Professor Kofi Makinwa’s research in the field of integrated circuits (chips) and smart sensors is an important contribution to the digital revolution. His technology forms the basis for The Internet of Things (IoT), smart phones, energy-efficient computers and safe cars.

Makinwa’s research is aimed at creating ever smaller and energy-efficient smart sensors. Based on chip technology, his small, cheap microchips are able to feel, process information and feed that information to a computer. Originally, chip technology was only used to create integrated circuits. However, research into the properties of silicon has resulted in a range of applications, for instance for measuring pressure, light intensity, magnetic fields and temperature.’

Makinwa is focusing his research on temperature sensors in silicon. Through innovative signal processing he has managed to make the sensors a whopping ten thousand times more energy efficient than their precursors while preserving other properties, such as precision. One of Makinwa’s achievements is a thermal sensor which measures wind speed and direction. One of the great advantages of this wind sensor is that is has no moving parts. This makes the design robust enough to withstand the kind of challenging circumstances which occur in, for instance, African countries where dust, sand and insects will find a way into practically any apparatus.

‘Smart sensors change the world’, a research project headed by Huibregtsen-nominee professor Kofi Makinwa

 

[Mr. McDowell]

Thumbs up.

 

[EdJo]

Marie Van Brittan Brown: Home Security System Inventor

Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, created an early closed-circuit television system to be used for home monitoring. That security system was the forerunner of all advanced home security technology in use today.

How Marie Van Brittan Brown Became an Inventor

Marie Van Brittan (1922-1999) was born and raised in Jamaica, Queens. She became a nurse, who like most nurses, did not work regular 9-5 hours. Her husband, Albert Brown, was an electronics technician. When she was home alone at odd hours of the day or night, she sometimes felt concerned. The crime rate in their neighborhood had increased, and everyone in the neighborhood knew that police response time in their area was notoriously slow. Marie wanted a way to feel less vulnerable.
Working with her husband, Albert, the two began devising a home security system. One issue that bothered Marie was having to answer the door to identify a visitor. Soon they had a plan for a motorized camera that was attached to a cabinet added to the door. The camera could move up and down to take views through four separate peep holes. The top spot would reveal the identity of a tall person; the lowest one would show if a child was at the door. The other peep holes could capture any person between these two heights.

A television monitor was placed in the Browns’ bedroom, and Albert used a radio-controlled wireless system to feed the images seen at the door back to the monitor. A two-way microphone also permitted conversation with the person at the door.

If the homeowner was concerned about the person at the door, a button could be pushed that would sound an alarm to signal a security firm, a neighborhood watchman, or it could alert a nearby neighbor. If, however, the person was a friend, a button could be pushed that would unlock the door remotely so that the visitor could come in.
As anyone who has visited an apartment in recent times knows, units exactly like the one the Browns invented are used in multi-dwelling buildings throughout the country. Today the technology for such a system has shrunk drastically, but the invention is just the same.

Patent Application Filed in 1966


Marie Van Brittan Brown: Home Security System Inventor - America Comes Alive

 

[EdJo]

Jessica O. Matthews is a Nigerian-American inventor, CEO and venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of Uncharted Power, which made Soccket, a soccer ball that can be used as a power generator. Matthews attended Harvard College and graduated from Harvard Business School. In 2011, Fortune Magazine named her Fortune’s "10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs" and in 2015, named her as Fortune’s "Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs." In 2012, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations named her "Scientist of the Year." Matthews is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Nigeria. The President of Nigeria named Matthews an Ambassador for Entrepreneurship for the country.

 

[EdJo]

Lloyd Albert Quarterman

"After earning his degree, Quarterman was hired to work on the Manhattan Project. As one of the few African Americans to work on the Manhattan Project, Quarterman was chiefly responsible for the design and construction of a special distillation system for purifying large quantities of hydrogen fluoride. This hydrogen fluoride would be used to separate the Uranium isotope U-235 for the construction of the atomic bombs. The U-235 that Quarterman helped accumulate was used to make Little Boy, the uranium bomb that was exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

After the war, Quarterman worked at the then newly established Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. At Argonne, Quarterman was an assistant to the associate research scientist and chemist from 1943 to 1949. He assisted with the first nuclear reactor for atomic-powered submarines."

 

[EdJo]

Robert Frederick Smith is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. A former chemical engineer and investment banker, he is the founder, chairman and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

Net Worth: 3.3 billion USD

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Great thread

 

[EdJo]

Brothers, Thomas Mensah is one of the most powerful black minds in modern times. If the world is now able to use fiber optics and internet of high speed, it is also because of him. The project stopped for years, until he joined the company Corning Glass Works.

"The Genius behind Broadband Fiber Optics that supports the High Speed Internet explains how Laser Pulses are used to transmit YouTube Videos, Facebook Photos, Instagram, and Google queries at the speed of light on the Internet to cell phones, computers and other devices around the world"

Thomas O. Mensah (born around 1950) is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor. His works are in fields relating to the development of fiber optics and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents, 7 of which awarded within a period of six years, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015.

In 1983, Mensah joined Corning Glass Works, working in fiber optics research at Sullivan Park, New York. Researchers at Corning had previously developed optical fiber with loss below the crucial attenuation limit of 20 dB/km, but the fibers could not be manufactured at rates higher than 2 meters per second.

Mensah improved the manufacturing process through a series of innovations, raising the speed of manufacture to 20 meters per second by 1985. This made the cost of optical fiber comparable to traditional copper cables. Mensah received the Corning Glass Works Individual Outstanding Contributor Award for this work in 1985. His work ultimately raised speed of manufacture above 50 meters per second. He is also Chairman of Entertainment Arts Research Inc, a Virtual Reality and Video Game Design Company.

Mensah moved to Bell laboratories in 1986, where he led a program to develop the first laser guided weapons for the US Department of Defense guided missile program which enabled the development of missiles that travel at the speed of sound (Mach 1). This technology developed by Mensah earned him three patents.

Mensah is President and CEO of Georgia Aerospace Systems[8] that manufactures nano composite structures used in missiles and aircraft for the US Department of Defense.[9] On February 24, 2017 CBS Television News devoted a segment featuring Dr. Mensah for Black History Month titled - The Engineer who revolutionized the Internet.

Thomas Mensah - Wikipedia

 

[EdJo]

Sequence on Dr. Thomas Mensah

Facebook, Google, are using my inventions – Ghana’s Dr. Thomas Mensah

Dr. Mensah, while working for American company, Corning Glass Works, was able to help improve and commercialize a fiber optic technology the company had been working on for 15 years without success.
Prior to the invention, copper wires were used as a major channel for data transmission and networking workstations.

Facebook, Google, using my inventions – Ghana's Dr. Thomas Mensah - Ghana News

 

[EdJo]

Keven Stonewall, black college student from Chicago discovers a breakthrough for colon cancer cure.

Black College Student From Chicago Discovers A Breakthrough For Colon Cancer Cure



Brothers, when it comes to our youths, let's promote this.

 

[skokiaan]

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U didnt add PAWG to the tags @OP

 

[8WON6]

It’s crazy how this is a pro black site but threads like these do no numbers. We gotta do better

lots of fake accounts and people that only wanna be around blacks when it's ignant shyt.

 

[EdJo]

Black female physicist pioneers technology that kills cancer cells with lasers

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is an African-American medical physicist known for her part in the development of a process that has the potential to help in the evolution of a novel cancer treatment using laser-activated nanoparticles.

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is one of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the country, and the recent winner of $1.1 million grant to further develop a technology she’s pioneered that uses laser-activated nanoparticles to treat cancer.

Hadiyah-Nicole Green as Miss Alabama A&M

I have been in love with this lady, ever since i saw the first video about her. Beautiful in everything, from smile to brain. Not trying to be mean, but i would be really mad, if i found out she is bedbucking...Come on now