Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers! Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up.

01:00 L'histoire 

06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker

07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus

08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller

10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk

11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board

17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush

19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower

22:03 Biddy Mason

Links to all the research resources are on the website.

Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs. 

Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 

Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi. Or buy the book and a shirt.

Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen.

Sources:

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/

https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history

https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park

https://alliesforracialjustice.org/shark-tank-in-the-1800s-black-women-reigned-in-household-inventions/

https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman

https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two

https://laist.com/news/la-history/biddy-mason-free-forever-the-contentious-hearing-that-made-her-a-legend-los-angeles-black-history

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices