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Inventing a Brighter Tomorrow 

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* 1. American inventor and businessman, best known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors.

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* 2. American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She was the inventor of laser cataract surgery. Her invention was called Laserphaco Probe.

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* 3. A nurse and an innovator. In 1966, she invented a video home security system along with her husband. In the same year, they applied for a patent for their innovative security system, which was granted in 1969.

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* 4. An African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue.

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* 5. American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants such as cortisone, steroids and contraceptive medication.

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* 6. American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, whose work includes a U.S. Air Force-term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and created the super soaker gun and nerf gun.

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* 7. American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion and creator of the peanut.

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* 8. Inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981.

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* 9. One of NASA's human 'computers,' she performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight.

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* 10. American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

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* 11. African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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* 12. Inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.

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