African American Black History Month Choice Board
Across
- 2. who invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment and became the first Black female doctor to receive a medical patent?
- 6. who created early versions of the traffic light and gas mask?
- 9. who developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip?
- 10. who built the foundation of the home security systems we know today?
- 11. who invented and patented Three Dimensional Viewing Glasses?
Down
- 1. who was America’s first woman self-made millionaire?
- 3. who helped to revolutionize both the cinema and refrigeration industries?
- 4. who invented more than 300 uses for the peanut?
- 5. who invented the Super Soaker water gun and is developing a thermoelectric device to convert solar energy into sustainable power?
- 7. who worked on several pioneering internet technologies, and is credited with developing the animation used to create GIFs?
- 8. who was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT, and is responsible for monumental telecommunications research that led to the invention of products such as the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber optic cables, and caller ID?