Inventors

Benjamin T. Montgomery

(1819 – 1877)

Invented a slanted propeller for steamboat that allowed them to operate more effectively in shallow water.

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Appiah, Anthony Kwame, and Henry Louis Gates. 2005. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Novak, Matt. “The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave,” paleofuture.gizmodo.com, August 28, 2018.

RitaLorraine. “Benjamin Montgomery, Slave Inventor,” Black History Channel,  July 5, 2013.

Sluby, Patricia Carter. 2004. The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Ppatented Ingenuity. Westport, Conn: Praeger.

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An American Inventor Denied A Patent Because He Was A Slave – [Min: 0:51]

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