It’s hard to believe that we’re winding down on Black History Month, but we are. How time flies. There are so many unsung heroes and sheroes in Black history who deserve accolades. I try to find the names and stories of some of the people who helped make our history-rich but were overlooked or whose stories just were not shared often enough, and I tell them again.
In this column today, I’m shining the spotlight on African American Inventors, some of whom you may have heard of, others who may be new to you, but all who deserve more accolades for their ingenuity.
One such person is George Robert Carruthers. He was born on October 1, 1939, and he died on December 26, 2020. He was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer, and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.
Mark E. Dean was born on March 2, 1957, and he is an inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. In 1995, Dean was named the first-ever African-American IBM Fellow.
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