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**// Garret a Morgan //**
====I received my first patent in 1912 for the invention of my style one helmet. I received a first grand prize for my gas. My style one helmet passed many tests and saved many soldiers in world war one by protecting them from deadly chlorine fumes. My style one helmet allowed people to breathe in deadly fumes from fifteen to twenty minutes and survive. I was asked to present and demonstrate my invention in many towns and cities and for having the courage to do that I was awarded a gold medal studded with diamonds by the city of Cleveland. As time went by orders for my gas mask grew bigger and bigger however when the word was spread that I was a black man many of my orders were cancelled. When I travelled in the South I needed a white man demonstrate my invention while I passed myself as an American Indian?==== Picture of Garret A Morgan

Blog 2 =// Lewis Temple //= ==== One day I came across an idea that if the harpoon head could turn ounce in the whales blubber the whale could not escape or bend the metal like on a fixed head harpoon. In 1848 I invented a new harpoon called the toggle. In 1857 three hundred and twenty nine ships were employing more than ten thousand men from New Bedford and nearby towns. And in 1857 my toggle head had become the standard harpoon in the whaling industry. It was not until I invented a harpoon called the toggle iron .Later my toggle iron had begun to make real changes in whale catching. The captains used to keep logbooks of each voyage. The logbooks held their whale catching progress in it half a picture of a whale meant a whale was struck but got away and a full whale meant the whale was caught. But many of the pictures were half a whale. When my toggle iron was used there were more whole whales than half whale’s. wich made my toggle iron famous. ====

Fredrick McKinley Jones
==== One hot summer in 1937 I was getting hot in my car so I decided to roll down my window while riding around near a lake in the city of Minneapolis. I stopped for a few moments to get a breath of fresh just before being attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. I started to wonder why no one ever invented a cooling device for a car an air conditioner. In the late 1930 i was still working on designs for air cooling devices for trucks transporting foods.i recieved a patent on july 12 1949 for a removable air cooling device that coul be removed when it was not needed so it could be stored until it was needed. ====