15 Inventions Created By Black Americans 

If you want know how this video didn't honor a black inventor that really DOES deserve more credit, see the "debunking 15 inventions created by Black Americans" by "Don't Walk, Run! Productions."

Elon Musk improved on the electric car so Elon Musk invented cars. That's the logic in this video.

This video is the reason people should learn and research history so people won't be fooled by these revisionist hacks.

So much for respecting these people. You got 1 of 15 correct. You HAD the chance to acknowledge the inventor of ThermoKing, but you have an agenda to meet.

You only got the ice cream scoop correct. Everything else was either improvements on existing inventions or versions of inventions we don’t even use today. Major fail. Andy shredded your video.

Bruh. Do your ancestors the honor of at least doing research and correctly attributing inventions.

" Don't let the facts mess up a good story." Mark Twain

This list is terribly done in research . Also , I’m sure that all of these “inventors” wanted to be remembered by their skin color and not their years of work .

1- Richard Spikes did NOT invent the automatic gear shift. HR Hoffman was the first to make improvements on the gear shift patent#1475265. 2 - Benjamin Banneker - "rumor has it"..should I say more? 3- Alexander Miles did not invent automatic doors, JW Meaker did. 4 -patent no 147853 2.24.1874 Miles patent--#371--,207 10.11.1887. 5- Lewis Latimer only patented "new and useful improvements in incandescent electric light...I can do this 10 more times but what's the point? Your video is trash

Congratulations, you got 1 out of 15 right! I’m kinda impressed that you even got the 1, which was the (ice cream scoop). Normally I’d expect you to get everything wrong.

I don’t understand a bit, how you didn’t just honor great black inventors that made great improvements to inventions, instead of lying about 14 of them 🤦‍♂️

I’ve made improvements to my car. I guess that means I invented the automobile. If you want to honor black inventors, find actual black inventors and honor them properly rather than finding people who made improvements on existing things because you think the inventions sound more impressive.

The weird thing is that the presenter could easily have pointed to almost all of these as instances where black men improved the overall functioning of society and contributed to American industrial progress. Instead he resorts to bogus claims of black inventions which not only put black men on a false pedestal but act to tear down white men. He could use these examples to acknowledge the ability of any person in America to contribute to society and a common culture, if they are so motivated, and to build up and unify the entire nation. This is why the left is always so miserable. They live with perfect opportunities to unite and build common happiness but toss them aside in favor of division and hatred.

I'm supposed to "raise a fist" or "take a knee" and thank some random black person because the only actual invention on here is the ice cream scooper?

This is how people attempt to change history

Journalists: Why is journalism dying? Also Journalists:

Ironically this video is going to get more views from people who watched the debunk response video from Don't walk, Run than it did from people who actually thought this list was real!

So he saw his friends clock then invented a clock ?

I changed a flat tire on my 2006 Corolla. I invented the car.

America's first clock? How can you invent something 'American' that existed centuries before the USA.

In the video you even admit they made "changes." Making a change to an existing invention isn't the same as creating the original invention :/ Making a better part for a lightbulb doesn't mean you created the lightbulb. How come you didn't give any shout outs to real black inventors, like Lonnie Johnson for inventing the Super Soaker? He brought joy to the lives of millions of people, and his invention is still the most popular water gun on the entire planet, many decades later.

Enhancing or improving on something is not the same thing as inventing it. While these people have done just that and that’s great and everything that they did it but they didn’t invent.

It's astounding how someone can be so smug while also being so wrong

I just improved the steering wheel of my car, so now i invent the steering wheel. Great job 👏

It's SPIKES not SPYKES genius. Great job!

From Wiki: U.S. Patent 1,889,814 Modifications to the automatic gear shift (1932) by Richard Spikes . *Modifications are not equal to inventions.*

You missed Spike Lee, He invented Motion Pictures.

It’s moments like this that RU-vid decided to remove the dislike button lol

With the exception of the ice cream scooper invention, these are merely modifications to existing inventions… some good and some not so much.

The FOLDING Chair :( AGAIN another FALSE claim that turns out like the light bulb an IMPROVEMENT, IT IN THE PATENT INFO ) Folding chairs have been around for thousands of years, with some dating as far back as the 15th century B.C. In the United States, an early patent for a folding chair was by John Cram in 1855. In 1947, Fredric Arnold created the first aluminum folding chair with fabric strapping for the seat and back. By 1957, the Fredric Arnold Company of Brooklyn, New York, was manufacturing more than 14,000 chairs per day. RE JOHN PURDY The patent disclosed that they “have invented certain new and useful improvements in Folding Chairs.

Why is this video not flagged as mis-information?

...while I have no issues, or much care for that matter, regarding the ethnicity of creators, this guy got SMASHED by a dose of truth and reality...

Thomas Elkins didn't invent the refrigerator at all! he came out with an improvement for it. Stop trying to take credit for others work

How is this not labeled misinformation?

1 out of 15 ain't bad LOL!!! And holy cow, this video is still up?!? It's been almost three years :D

The ice cream scooper was the only one invented by a black inventor. The other 14 were only improvements that were sometimes decades after the actual invention. You could not even go buy a .50 cent bag of potato chips for the video. Your holding Sun chips which are not made from potatoes. Your great at sports and music. Be proud of that.

Congrats you got the Ice Cream Scoop Correct. You spelled one of their names wrong and Miscredited two of them for inventions they didn't make but didn't mention the actual world changing inventions they did make.

Your video is provenly debunked and you are only correct of 1/15 inventions. The other inventions were invented by other people. You were only right about the ice cream scoop

Going to need someone to invent the "Fire extinguisher" for the pants on fire part of this video.... Did you guys really think this was going to go without any validation? hahaha

Richard did not invent the automatic gear shift. He improved something that was already existing.

Buzzfeed ruined videos like this. These inventors the author mentions worked along side others in a system that promoted and encouraged these improvements. We put to much brainpower into skin color. Can’t we all be Americans together and be happy we got to work together to make our world a better place. The author of this video is a jerk.. “Good try white people...”. Being rude to any people group is still RUDE. Also, BHM? I learned about fellow Americans in school all year round. Like Madam CJ Walker or George Washington Carver or Martin Luther King Jr. Or Thomas Sowell, You know great Americans along side other great Americans of every race, creed, religion. BHM is self isolationism to divide us as Americans. PC culture is driving all people out of their minds and into divisive discussions. We should be focused on what drives us closer together.

Shoutout to Don’t Walk Run Productions. Your video is now gaining more popularity cause of it.

this video is pure invention.

Did black americans also invent rewriting history?

A rather sad video. Engineering and artisanship are always fantastic things to appreciate. But inventions only have real meaning to society if the specific inventions are widely adopted and change that particular industry. Drop the race dimension. These are folks worthy of adulation without being the subject of a superficial effort to claim some kind of superiority.

I’m sure these inventors wanted all their achievements boiled down to what skin colour they had eh?

This video aged like chocolate milk in the sun

I wish we could celebrate one race without putting down another

I'm almost certain this guy spent a total of 2 hours researching for this video. Nearly everything is incorrect or lacks proper context.

Everything blacks have ever done fits into a 3 minute video. Lmao

What's even more funny is that I have the chrome extension that allows me to see the dislike count and man this video did not disappoint lol.

i just improved my shoes by tightening the laces. i invented every shoe.

You’re 1 for 15 in this one. 😂 The ice cream scoop is the ONLY one you got correct. It’s called due diligence but you’ll never do that- because you don’t want to know the truth. Every single one of your 15 was not only wrong , some of them (the folding chair in particular) were off by anywhere from 2k yrs ago to 35 yrs from their ORIGINAL inventors. Lol @ the “modern lock” ohhh my how you have embarrassed yourself. Credit: “don’t walk, run productions” 👍🏻

Dude. DUDE. How does this help? The ones I looked up, your take is largely exaggerated or just completely disproven. Some of them are based on the fact that the men mentioned applied for patents on improvements to existing tech. Like MANY other people did. Whether or not their particular improvements were ever actually implemented is a different, debatable matter. But to make blanket statements that these men "invented" the refrigerator, traffic light, etc...that's just not true, man. (And to build up Latimer while calling Edison a hack, that's just pathetic. Like many other men whose names you probably don't know, Latimer was employed by Edison and made CONTRIBUTIONS to the lightbulb. But it is because of Edison's genius, drive, and ingenuity that we HAVE those inventions.) The Shirley Ann Jackson one is particularly embarrassing. She IS a smart, accomplished woman, who probably dealt with a lot of racism early on. What she ACTUALLY accomplished should be inspiring enough. But she is now a woman whose legacy will be forever tarnished by the prevalence of these wild, easily disproven claims. Claims she herself has NEVER made. The problem of the lingering falsehoods is even mentioned on her Wiki page. All of the specific inventions you attributed to her predate her work at Bell Labs, where she did the bulk of her research. She probably did come up with some useful theories. But she invented, nor contributed to the invention of, NONE of the things you listed. SHE doesn't even claim she did. "The Mother of Modern Telecommunications." Dude, get a grip. People, in general, regardless of race, need to stop being so obsessed with what their ancestors did or didn't do. Go from here. Make your own mark. But wild, inaccurate claims help no one.

I added an oil separator to my truck. I invented trucks.

Yeah, they invented a lot, that's why Africa is so advanced continent...

This video is full of wrong informations: #1: Richard Spykes never invented the automatic gear shift.He made some modifications to the already existing mechanism. #2: Benjamin Banneker never invented a clock or build "America's first clock". He build one of the first pocket watches using only American materials. He used wood for his one. The clock already existed, the pocket watch already existed, he just used a different material. He even had a pocket watch and just copied that watch. #3: Alexander Miles also never invented that automatic door. He made an improvement to the patent of an automatic door that was patented almost 20 years earlier. Also I couldn't find any informations on if his version was ever used. I can only find older examples of another improvement to that patent that was actually build, because Miles' version had some problems. #4: Lewis Latimer also never invented the light bulb or the technique behind it. He just made minor improvements. Everything was already planned and his boss had the idea to form the wire like an "M", but it was hard to hold that into place. Another person found out, how they could do it and Latimer had an idea on how to build those wires. #5: I couldn't find exact details, but the first folding chair that was ever found was in Denmark in the 14th century B.C. That was nearly 3500 years ago. So, again, he most likely just improved the folding chair. #6: This seems to be true. He was the first person who invented an ice-cream scoop with a build in scraper. We don't use that kind of scoop anymore, but someone has made an improvement on his invention. But yes, this was his idea. #7: I couldn't udnerstand the name, but the modern lock. the one that we are still using today was inventen by Linus Yale Jr. in 1848. He was a pretty white guy. And the lock that came before that was inventen by Abraham O. I don't know anything about him, but yeah... a white guy invented the modern lock. I even read through "The History of locks" and there is not a single mentioning of a name that sounds like the name that you have used. And that you have mentioned those "4000 years" is interesting, because the oldest lock that they have found was actually 4000 years old, but a lot has changed in that time. #8: Again, he improved an existing version of the refrigerator. It already existed! (Yes, you have mentioned that he improved it, but you sounded like, he made a big change, he didn't) And I can guarantee you, that between his improvement and today, a lot of people have improved the refrigerator over and over. The first person that invented an artificial cooling refrigerator (one that doesn't need ice) was William Cullen in 1755, a white guy. #9: Nonono, that just isn't true. This had nothing to do with a toilet. Toilets weren't invented at that time. His patent is a bit weird but it seems like, he made an improvement to the closet that was standing next to the hole that you defecate in. It is really confusing. #10: The Mob existed before. He made two improvements: First, you could now unscrew the head of the mob from the base and second, you could now pull a lever that presses the water out of the mob head. I mean... nice, but still, people had mobs before. And I have never ever seen a mob that you can unscrew from the handle (I only know those that can fold into the mob, it is hard to explain) and I don't know any mob that has a lever to press water out of it... so what? #11: Well, to be honest, I have read through the whole History of pencil sharpeners and couldn't find this name anywhere. But there was a part about portable pencil sharpeners that didn't included the person who invented them. So yeah, maybe he was black, I give you the benefit of the doubt. #12: The oldest recipe for potato chips was found in England in 1817 and George Crum was born in 1822. He made the potato chips well known in his area, but still, the recipe already existed. #13: I think, you are right. It seems like he invented the refrigeration units for food trucks and liked the idea and then changed it for home-use. And he invented the temperatur control unit. And his drawing of the units look alot like the things that you can see on the outside of buildings in the USA, so bravo, I guess, you are right. #14: The traffic light already existed. He just came up with the idea to add a third warning light. He just added the yellow light. He hasn't invented the traffic light. but a guy named William had a version with a yellow warning light that predated Morgan by three years, but he just didn't get the patent. So Morgan wasn't even the first person who wanted to introduce the yellow light. #15: I haven't looked into every single of her inventions, but you are basically saying: "She invented the @-sign. And we use that to write E-Mails. So she invented E-mails." Yes, she invented some things and improved a lot of things, but she has not invented a single of the things that you have listed. You are not the inventor of something when you have made improvements to a device that was later used to build that something. Conclusion: Stop talking about skincolor. Seriosly. I have just spend over an hour reading patents to debunk nearly every single of your points. What would happen if I made one of those videos about White people? Because many of the things you have named, already existed before, but what about Windows OS? Invented by white people and not "a white person improved one part that was later used by that black person to code Windows OS", I really mean invented. But what would that do? I would get a lot of hate, I would be caleld a racist, without saying anything racist at all. the only real invention by a black person on your list was the ice cream scoop. The inventions by white people on my lsit would be airplanes, radio, telescopes, eyeglasses and contact lenses, over 95% of all life saving drugs, over 95% of all medical equipment and so on. The thing is, there are many important White, Black, Yellow, Red and whatever brains who lived and still live on this planet. But lying and changing stuff around, will not change a thing. It will just make people with a brain angry. "Okay so BuzzFeed, MTV and that guy need to lie and tell us any good inventions by black people. This means black people haven't invented anything." do you want this mindset? Then stop lying. And I bet, my comment will get deleted. But maybe it won't and people can argue with me if they disagree. Just keep in mind, that my bottom line is: I don't care about the skin colour of the guy who invented the modern lock. You are the one who thinks that skincolor is important. I am just debunking what you have said, because I am against lies and false informations.

You are wrong on everything except the ice cream scoop ..well done

Come on dude, you could have done research. You spent five seconds reviewing yourself, misspelled names, credited people for inventions they didn't invent...

My desk is wobbly so I put a quarter under the corner of it. Therefore I invented desk.

imagine making this video and not only misspelling names, but crediting these people with inventions they didn’t invent while simultaneously not acknowledging them for the incredible things that they actually did. pathetic and sad.

Many of these things are improvements rather than original ground breaking ideas, you can’t invent things that are already made lol

Sorry, but there is a long list of people to thank for the modern day lightbulb. It would seem Edison is deserving of a significant proportion of the praise, but to proclaim Latimer as the inventor is absurd and unfounded.

The ice cream scoop... I cannot imagine the world without ice cream scoops. Awesome. Thank you.

So now an improvement is an invention?

1 thing in this video was correct. The ice cream scoop. Lmao.

"Inventions", eh? Nearly all are modifications to existing inventions. This is just pitiful.

If I put a dent in my car, I have made a change to my car, therefore I am now the inventor of the modern car. I have also ripped a shirt before, allowing easier access to the middle portion of the shirt, therefore I have invented the modern shirt. I spilled paint on a carpet once, so I invented the carpet. I have also invented the modern phone, computer, and human, for similar reasons. My name will go down in history as the greatest inventor of all time because of your logic.

Shows "Sun Chips" (made from corn) for a potato chip segment. 😆😆😆😆😆😆

Damn you guys are scraping the bottom of the barrel here huh? 😂 ice cream scoop

Well, at least you got the ice cream scoop right.

Lonnie Johnson is an amazing inventor. You totally missed this super brain real inventor. Where would we be without Nerf guns and super soakers? Where?

I don’t think the word invent means what you think it means.

It’s amazing what production value can do for talentless presenters

I improved on a pb&j with homemade jelly, so I invented the pb&j.

Have you seen the video “inventions created by white people”? I was going to upload it to YT but it’s a never ending video and a living person wouldn’t have enough time, in their entire life, to watch the whole video.

THIS is why the dislike numbers should come back. Right here!

Why is this video allowed to still be up on youtube? I thought they were cracking down on misinformation?

Black Americans also invented the air that we breath, they invented the sun, and they also invented ocean currents.

Garrett Morgan March 4, 1877 July 27, 1963 In 1914, Garrett Morgan patented a breathing device in the form of a canvas hood-a precursor to the modern gas mask. Garrett Morgan invented the first automatic three-way traffic signal system, which he eventually sold to General Electric. Garrett Morgan was the first Black man in Cleveland, Ohio, to own a car. See how difficult it is to research subject.

Bruh improvements arent inventions. But otherwise you didn't have enough items?

Making improvements on something doesn't make that person the inventor. So many errors in this video.

It's SPIKES not SPYKES genius. Great job! Also out of all 15, you only got 1 right. LMAO

I improved my wife's life. I guess I invented women.

You got one right! Good job!

“WE WUZ EDISONZ N SHEEIT!” 😂

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KqPyQuIMlt8.html Just in case anyone would like to learn history, here's this entire video broken down by someone who did their research.

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ya'll got deboonked hard on this one. thanks, Don't Walk, Run! Productions

You need to check your sources and become more aware of advances of each technology and/or device. A bit more circumspection would make this author less vulnerable to counterattack.

Eh he never used either but did y'all know Shaka Zulu invented the wheel and the horse drawn chariot too?

For those curious, with youtube removing the dislike feature it's impossible to see the like-dislike ratio. With some modifications, however, you still can, and I can confirm the like to dislike ratio is 2,044 to *2,921.*

He's lucky the dislike bar doesn't show up anymore

Lmao, is this a joke? Did you research any of this?

In 1830 Thierry des Estivaux, a Franchman invented the small single bladed handheld pencil sharpenr that we still use today.

Most entertaining part of this video is when they said they did research! Lol.

I invented the PB&J sandwich because I used a baguette

the fact that you want to make a video like this, says so much about the kind of person you are. If you have to lie to make your case, your case isn't worth listening to. I deal in historical facts, not whatever this garbage is.

This is what you call historical revisionism

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