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Black History Month Technology Pioneers
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Katherine Johnson
NASA mathematician who calculated and verified trajectories that took the first Americans to space and to the moon.
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Gerald A. Lawson
created the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges.
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Marc Hannah
founded software firm Silicon Graphics (now SGI), where the special-effects genius developed 3-D graphics technology that would be used in many Hollywood movies - Jurassic Park, Terminator 2.
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Mark Dean
helped design the IBM personal computer, introduced in 1981, that became a staple on desktops.
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Lewis Howard Latimer
Thomas Edison may have invented the electric lightbulb, but Latimer helped make it a common feature in American households.
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Granville T. Woods
often called the black Thomas Edison. Woods holds more than 50 patents for such inventions as the egg incubator and a steam boiler furnace.
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Lonnie G. Johnson
former Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the massively popular Super Soaker water gun.
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Mae C. Jeminson
first African-American female astronaut. In 1992, she flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African-American woman in space.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist that labeled Pluto as a dwarf planet
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Thomas Jennings
invented a way to clean clothes using a dry-scouring process, what we call dry cleaning today.
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Dr. James E. West
created the microphone that all rappers rock today.
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