The Bed That Became a Desk
In 1885 Chicago, a furniture shop owner engineered a bed that folded into a writing desk, and secured a federal patent at a time when few applicants looked like her.
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The Signal Between Moving Trains
In 1887, a self-taught Black inventor found a way for moving trains to send messages to distant stations without wires, turning electricity into a safeguard against deadly collisions.
