T&a carrington biography

During Black History Month, we’ve been thinking about the Black innovators who we have to thank for where we are today. Last year, we celebrated digital innovators who made what we do at Art Processors possible. This year, we look to inspiration from people like Thomas A Carrington who invented the range oven as well as the stethoscope – what a mind. And Lyda Newman who patented a hairbrush that wasn’t only cheaper but actually lasts. The link? African-American inventors who touch our lives every single day. 

Here are four others that we couldn't do a day’s work without. 

James Edward West 

Johns Hopkins School of Engineering Professor Dr. James Edward Maceo West featured with a prototype of his research group's latest invention, a smart digital stethoscope with artificial intelligence algorithms. Credit: Sonavi Labs,CC BY-SA 4.0, no changes made to the image.

In the 1960s during his time at Bell Labs, James Edward West invented the foil electret microphone, along with Ger T-mobile us.