![]() ![]() Though denied admission to Highland University because of his race, Carver gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, in 1887. He went on to excel at Minneapolis High School in Kansas. He began his education in Newton County in southwest Missouri, where he worked as a farm hand and studied in a one-room schoolhouse. ![]() If you do not have the RealAudio plug-in, you can get it hereĪgricultural chemist George Washington Carver developed crop-rotation methods for conserving nutrients in soil and discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut, which created new markets for farmers, especially in the South.īorn of slave parents in Diamond Grove, Missouri, Carver was rescued from Confederate kidnappers as an infant. Return to American Inventors and InventionsĬosmetic and Process of Producing the Same Paint and Stain and Process of Producing the Same Photograph of George Washington Carver (1864-1943), about 1900, by Clifton Johnson (1865-1940), gelatin silver print This photograph, taken by Clifton Johnson, a pioneer of documentary photography, shows Carver (left) with a student in the woodland at Tuskegee.Ĭourtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. He made it possible for many Southern farmers to diversify their crops, and became known as "the miracle worker" throughout the South. By the late 1890s, after overcoming poverty and racial discrimination, he became the director of agricultural teaching and research at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute.Ĭarver discovered more than 450 products that could be made from the peanut and other cultivated plants. George Washington Carver was born into slavery. WOODSĮLECTRIC RAILWAY SYSTEM: GRANVILLE T. WOODSĮLECTRIC CUT-OFF SWITCH: GRANVILLE T. POLM.WATER REDUC.PAINT: MORRIS B WILLIAMS HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBER: RALPH SANDERSON CABLE W/NON-MET.SHEAT: ARTIS JENKINSĪIR CONDITIONING UNIT: FREDERICK M. BLACK INVENTORS BLACK INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS ![]()
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