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Black History Month Technology Pioneers
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Katherine JohnsonNASA mathematician who calculated and verified trajectories that took the first Americans to space and to the moon.
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Gerald A. Lawsoncreated the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges.
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Marc Hannahfounded 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 Deanhelped design the IBM personal computer, introduced in 1981, that became a staple on desktops.
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Lewis Howard LatimerThomas Edison may have invented the electric lightbulb, but Latimer helped make it a common feature in American households.
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Granville T. Woodsoften 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. Johnsonformer Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the massively popular Super Soaker water gun.
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Mae C. Jeminsonfirst 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 TysonAstrophysicist that labeled Pluto as a dwarf planet
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Thomas Jenningsinvented a way to clean clothes using a dry-scouring process, what we call dry cleaning today.
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Dr. James E. Westcreated the microphone that all rappers rock today.
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