Yarddog
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You sully Carver's name; he rose from poverty. Yes, historians like DuBois, educators like Booker T. Washington, and many, many others also were great. Greatest scientist remains Carver in my eyes.
Carver was great, but wasn't he primarily in agriculture? Seems to me that Ben Franklin did much more to change the world in his time. lets see,
he invented bi focals, the flexible catheter, invented the lightning rod which actually saved lives, invented the franklin stove which gave out superior heat in freezing winters which also saved lives, was the first to note that electricity had a positive and a negative, invented swim fins, he observed the effects of lead poisoning, He also founded or co- founded the first public library where you could check out books, the nations first fire department, Americas first art academy, America's first public hospital. like Carver, he did not patent anything but let it be used freely by the public. He invented a clock that used a simplified form of only three gears, he studied the theories of heat transfer, and ocean temperatures. I think for his time he was much more diverse in his curiosity of invention. Of course they lived in different time periods and the methods of study had changed some by the time Carver was around.
Carver may have been the most influential in agriculture I think .He did things that revolutionized that area
Well this is what Peach is talking about Benjamin Banneker existed and actually did as much, if not more than Franklin.
Banneker is another under rated scientist, born in 1731, astronomer, mathematician, etc. I limited the GREATEST only to born in the US, died in the US. Good to see more than white names however, that I see as racism.
Mentioning Franklin is racism? why is that? Its just that, when I think of the lightning rod, the franklin stove invention, those theories of electricity that helped to revolutionize things for the US. Its those inventions that stand out to me not his skin color. Sorry you have to see racism, but thats your problem