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Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers!\xa0Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up.\n01:00 L'histoire\xa0\n06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker\n07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus\n08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller\n10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk\n11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board\n17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush\n19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower\n22:03 Biddy Mason\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. and/or Chris Haugen.\nSources:\n https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/\n https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history\n https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park\n https://alliesforracialjustice.org/shark-tank-in-the-1800s-black-women-reigned-in-household-inventions/\n https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two\n https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/\nhttps://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman\n https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two\n https://laist.com/news/la-history/biddy-mason-free-forever-the-contentious-hearing-that-made-her-a-legend-los-angeles-black-history\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices