Best known as the inventor who could do anything with a peanut, George Washington Carver patented only a small handful of his hundreds of his novel products and methods for improving agriculture. Born a slave, Carver consistently shunned fortune. Interested only in the betterment of mankind, he took no money at all for the majority of his inventions. Granted a scholarship in Kansas, the college refused Carver withdrew his admission after discovering Carver was African…

Benjamin Banneker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Benjamin Banneker Born November 9, 1731 Baltimore County, Province of Maryland, British America Died October 9, 1806 (aged 74) Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S. Nationality American Other names Benjamin Bannaker Occupation almanac author, surveyor, farmer Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had…