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Earth's Unsungest Heroes: Black Inventors, pt 4 (ep 184)
Your Brain on Facts
English - February 22, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsHistory Education factoid facts history trivia truestory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers! Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up.
01:00 L'histoire
06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker
07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus
08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller
10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk
11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board
17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush
19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower
22:03 Biddy Mason
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Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen.
Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/
https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park
https://alliesforracialjustice.org/shark-tank-in-the-1800s-black-women-reigned-in-household-inventions/
https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman
https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two
https://laist.com/news/la-history/biddy-mason-free-forever-the-contentious-hearing-that-made-her-a-legend-los-angeles-black-history
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Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers! Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up.
01:00 L'histoire
06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker
07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus
08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller
10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk
11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board
17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush
19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower
22:03 Biddy Mason
Links to all the research resources are on the website.
Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.
Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi. Or buy the book and a shirt.
Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen.
Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/
https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman
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