African American Black History Month Choice Board

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Across
  1. 2. who invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment and became the first Black female doctor to receive a medical patent?
  2. 6. who created early versions of the traffic light and gas mask?
  3. 9. who developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip?
  4. 10. who built the foundation of the home security systems we know today?
  5. 11. who invented and patented Three Dimensional Viewing Glasses?
Down
  1. 1. who was America’s first woman self-made millionaire?
  2. 3. who helped to revolutionize both the cinema and refrigeration industries?
  3. 4. who invented more than 300 uses for the peanut?
  4. 5. who invented the Super Soaker water gun and is developing a thermoelectric device to convert solar energy into sustainable power?
  5. 7. who worked on several pioneering internet technologies, and is credited with developing the animation used to create GIFs?
  6. 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?