Black History Month -- Essential Inventions

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Across
  1. 6. Pioneer of the mass production and reduced cost of shoes
  2. 7. Partial inventor of the IBM personal computer
  3. 9. Invented the Super Soaker
  4. 11. New York DJ that pioneered the use of the turntable
  5. 12. African American surgeon and researcher who pioneered in the field of blood transfusions, blood storage and created the first blood banks.
Down
  1. 1. Patented a new filament for bulbs greatly extending their lifespans beyond that of
  2. 2. Invented the UV spectrograph, used by NASA in the Apollo 16
  3. 3. First black person to successfully file a patent, for a progenitor to the modern dry cleaner
  4. 4. Invented a new surgical technique for cataract surgery
  5. 5. Invented the automatic gear shift, car wash, and transmission
  6. 6. Invented the gas mask and three-way traffic light, with only an elementary education
  7. 8. Pioneered research into alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes
  8. 10. First black self-made millionaire