Otis F. Boykin
Otis F. Boykin was born in August 29 1920 in Dallas, Texas. His mother and father were carpenters.
As he grew up in 1938 he entered the “Fisk College” in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating in 1941 he started working in Chicago at the “Majestic And Radio TV Corporation” His first job was to test automatic controls on aircraft.
He left in 1944 to work at the “PG. Nilsen Research Lab” in Illinois.
Then he left again to started his own company, and that's when he started inventing his things.
Though out Boykins life he invented 26 other electronic devices like the special part of the cash register to make them bulletproof to take down the risk of stealing. He also invented a precision now found in computers radios TV’s and more, it made things cost less.
What Otis was most famous for was inventing the pacemaker, a medical caption made to prevent heart failures, the pacemaker is made out of three parts a silver dollar sized generator with wires attached to the heart, and an electrode.
Inside the generator there is a small battery and a tiny computer to regulate the heart beat, if the heart is beating too slow the electrode shocks the heart to make it go a faster pace.
The battery lasts up to five years and sounds off an alarm when it needs to be replace.
One of Boykins inventions are found in all guided missiles, it possesses a range of sixty kilometers. It hits targets by taking pictures through an infared camera installed at the nose of the missile.
The missiles have incredible accuracy in day or night.
A few years later Otis Boykin died of a heart failure in 1982.
George Washington Carver
My report is on George Washington Carver. He was born on July 12,1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri. But his exact birth date is unknown. His nationality was African American. His owner’s name was Moses Carver. Moses Carver was a German American.
George Washington Carver had a difficult but interesting life. George and his mother were kidnapped by confederate night raiders possibly sent away to Arkansas. George got into school when he was 12 because earlier he couldn’t get into school because of his race.
For his accomplishments he received three patents between 1925 and 1927. He made more than 300 different products from the peanut, some 100 from sweet potatoes, about 75 from pecans, and many more including crops. He also invented several kinds of medicines. He got a Agriculture bachelor’s degree in 1894, a masters degree in 1896, and an honary degree in 1928. George Washington Carver died on January 5, 1943 at the age of 78. That’s the story of George Washington Carver.
Alfred L. Cralle
Alfred L. Cralle had an interesting life. He was born in Lunenburg county, Virginia Sept. 4, 1866. A year after the Civil war had ended. He worked with his father at a carpentry trade as a kid. He became interested in mechanics. He married Patsey Ingram and had two kids Hannah and Permelia. His wife had died and then he married Eumphemia Whitelock.
He attended Wayland Seminary in Washington D.C for black kids so that they can get educated. He then settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and became a porter for a drug store and at a hotel. He noticed that ice cream was popular and that it was sticking to spoons and ladles so he made an ice cream scooper. Alfred was also a successful businessman, he was assistant manager for the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business. He died and nobody knows when he died.
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