Celebrating Black Inventors (Part D)

Black Inventor Name: Mark E. Dean
Patent #: 4,528,626
Date Patented: 8/9/1985
Item Patented: Improvements in computer architecture

Black Inventor Name: William A. Deitz
Patent #: 64,205
Date Patented: 4/30/1867
Item Patented: Shoe

Black Inventor Name: Ronald S. Demon
Inventor's Website:VectraSense Technologies
Patent #: 5,813,142
Date Patented: 9/29/1998
Item Patented: Shoe sole with an adjustable support pattern

Black Inventor Name: Lewis B. Dorcas
Patent #: 868,417
Date Patented: 10/15/1907
Item Patented: Stove

Black Inventor Name: Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus
Patent #: 535,820
Date Patented: 3/19/1895
Item Patented: Device for applying coloring liquids to sides of soles or heels of shoes
Patent #: 537,442
Date Patented: 4/16/1895
Item Patented: Machine for embossing photographs
Patent #: 537,968
Date Patented: 4/23/1895
Item Patented: Photographic print washer
Patent #: 629,315
Date Patented: 7/18/1899
Item Patented: Hose leak stop

Black Inventor Name: William Douglass
Date Patented: 5/2/1905
Patent #: 789,010
Item Patented: Self-binding harvester
Patent #: 789,120
Item Patented: Band-twister
Patent #: 789,122
Item Patented: Carrier chain

Black Inventor Name: Philip B. Downing
Patent #: 430,118
Date Patented: 6/17/1890
Item Patented: Street railway switch
Patent #: 462,092
Date Patented: 10/27/1891
Patent #: 462,093
Date Patented: 10/27/1891
Item Patented: Letter Box

Black Inventor Name: Dr. Charles Richard Drew
Item Patented: Blood bank

Black Inventor Name: Charles A. Dyer
Patent #: 3,732,632
Date Patented: 5/15/1973
Item Patented: Teaching aid

Here's my oldest on her Leap Pad

and my youngest on the children's (old Mac) laptop

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