Ruane sharon jeter biography

Ruane Jeter - In April 1987, Ruane Jeter presented the world with the Tiltster, a toaster with a digital clock that allowed users to control how brown they.
In 1987 Ruane Sharon Jeter was awarded the patent for creating a non lever driven toaster.
American Ruane created a toaster with a digital timer in 1987, which allowed for choosing mild to dark toasting.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s new book “What Color is My World” contains a wonderful collection of black inventors, but only has one female in the book. When I listened to “Tell Me More,” a show on NPR, I cringed when he answered why he did not include more black female inventors. His omission and lack of knowledge of other black female inventors and their significant accomplishments ignited a spark within me to educate my daughters and others about black women inventors.

Albert Gygorgyl once said, “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” I believe, inventors recognize an unfulfilled need and provide solutions, they are true visionaries in our communities and our world.

Below I only highlight a few prolific black female inventors, but it is my desire to share more in the future.

Janet Emerson Bashen

Bashen is the first black female to hold a patent for a software invention, LinkLine. Her software organizes and simplifies intake and tracking, claims management, doc

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Last week saw Dr. Gladys West’s induction into the hall of fame for the invention of the GPS. It came as a surprise to us and – we’re certain – to a larger number of people around the world, that a black woman was the mind behind the GPS. Inspired by this surprise, we did a quick search to discover if there were any other black women, history had omitted, behind the invention of everyday items. Here’s what we found:

Laser Eye Surgery

Dr. Patricia Bath, an alumnus of Howard University, has three patents, one of which is for the device used in laser cataract surgery. Known as the Laserphaco probe “provides a safer and less invasive method for removing cataracts and has allowed for groundbreaking surgeries around the globe.” She’s also the first black female medical doctor to receive a patent.

Caller ID

Imagine always having to ask who’s on the phone every time you receive a call? Well, thanks to Shirley Anne Jackson, most of us never know. Apart from contributions to Caller ID, her innovations helped the telecommunications industry develop Call Waiting, t

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Women have made great strides in many fields that previously – and to some degree still – were considered the domain of men, such as law and medicine.

There are scores of accomplished women who have not been acknowledged for their achievements in a variety of fields. Culture, gender bias and stereotyping play into this lack of recognition. Here’s a look at some of the women who have made outstanding contributions in medicine.

Barbara S. Askins
• Year of birth: 1939
• Birthplace: Belfast, Tennessee
• Occupation: Chemist
• Invention: Used radioactive material to enhance images from space
Barbara Askins is a NASA scientist. She is best known for inventing in the 1970s a method to enhance photographs taken from space. Prior to Askins’ inventions, these photographs were often blurred or lacked definition. By exposing negatives to radiation Askins was able to produce images with greater density and contrast. Her invention had applications outside space exploration. It was used to improve the clarity of X-rays – which meant getting readable X-rays while exposing patients to