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Congrats to Hearts & Wheels, who won week 2 of #moxiemillion, by sharing the show to help it reach 1 million downloads this month!\nNecessity is the mother of invention and who was in a more necessitous position than victims of the Atlantic slave trade?\xa0You may revolutionize industries, but good luck getting a patent.\n00:47 Patents and law\xa0\n06:40 Benjamin Bradley\n09:10 Benjamin Montgomery\n16:30 Thomas Jennings\n23:15 Henry Boyd\nLinks to all the research resources are on the\xa0website.\nHang out\xa0with your fellow Brainiacs.\xa0\nReach out and touch Moxie on\xa0Facebook,\xa0Twitter,\xa0or\xa0Instagram.\xa0\nBecome a patron of the podcast arts!\xa0Patreon\xa0or\xa0Ko-Fi.\xa0Or\xa0buy the book\xa0and\xa0a shirt.\nMusic:\xa0Kevin MacLeod,\xa0David Fesilyan,\xa0Dan Henig.\n\n\nSources:\n https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/with-patents-or-without-black-inventors-reshaped-american-industry-180962201\n https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/02/11/5-inventions-by-enslaved-black-men-blocked-by-us-patent-office/4/\n https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-history-month-inventions-black-slaves-denied-patents/\n https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/08/05/sarah-boone-inventor-ironing-board-and-first-black/\n https://theconversation.com/americas-always-had-black-inventors-even-when-the-patent-system-explicitly-excluded-them-72619\n https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-history-month-inventions-black-slaves-denied-patents/\nhttp://www.blackpast.org/aah/reed-judy-w-c-1826\n https://web.archive.org/web/20180802193123/https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-recognizes-inventive-women-during-womens-history-month\n https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2016/03/21/10-black-women-innovators-and-the-awesome-things-they-brought-us\n https://www.nkytribune.com/2019/02/our-rich-history-henry-boyd-once-a-slave-became-a-prominent-african-american-furniture-maker/\n https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/first-african-american-hold-patent-invented-dry-scouring-180971394/\nhttps://blackinventor.com/benjamin-bradley/\n https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/goode-sarah-e-c-1855-1905/\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices