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Thomas H. Epps, III is an American chemist and the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has a joint appointment in Materials Science & Engineering, and an affiliated appointment in…
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Thomas J. Martin (1842–1872) was awarded a patent for improvement to the fire extinguisher in 1872. The invention involved the use of pipes to carry water upwards and valves in the ceiling acting as sprinklers to extinguish fires in buildings. Thomas…
1791–1859
A New York tailor and abolitionist, Jennings received a patent in 1821 for an early dry-cleaning process and used his earnings to support the Black community and abolition.
Loading image…1950–2024
Thomas Owusu Mensah (1950 – 27 March 2024) was a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. He had 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of…
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Thomas Paul Bostick (born September 23, 1956) was the 53rd Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and Commanding General of the Army Corps of Engineers. Since the creation of West Point in 1802 as the Nation's first engineering school, Bostick is the…
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Thomas Sowell ( SOHL; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a…
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Thomas Washington Talley (October 9, 1868 – July 11, 1952) was a chemistry professor at Fisk University and a collector of African American folk songs.
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Thomas Wyatt Turner (March 16, 1877 – April 21, 1978) was an American civil rights activist, biologist, and educator. He was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. in botany, and helped found both the NAACP and the Federated Colored Catholics.
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Three Egungun".
ca. 1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal caption reads, "Throwing the Bones, Native Witch Doctors.".
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Thyrsa Anne Frazier Svager (June 16, 1930 – July 23, 1999) was an American academic who was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Ohio State University. She was also the tenth African-American woman in the United States to earn…
Biography
Tiara Moore works at the Washington state branch of The Nature Conservancy. She is known for her leadership in organizing the Black in Marine Science week and her work in social activism.
1984-1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis TIC Kit containing cannulae in various sizes was used by Dr. Ben Carson. The components of the TIC Kit are stored in a square stainless steel storage case (.1) with a perforated lid and base and metal handles on each side. The case opens at the front…
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Tiera Guinn Fletcher is an American aerospace engineer. She is a designer and structural analyst for NASA's Space Launch System.
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Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is an American academic and author who is currently an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine and President of the National Conference of Black Political…
ca. 1912
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA large rectangular worker's time clock used by the R. H. Boyd Publishing Company. The front of clock has a large metal wheel with small black encircled numbers. Behind the large metal wheel is a clock featuring roman numerals and an AM/PM dial. Black type…
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Timnit W. Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1983) is an Ethiopian-born Eritrean computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that…
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Tina Louise Brower-Thomas is an American nanotechnology and quantum materials researcher and STEM education advocate. She is the Education Director at the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials, and Executive Director of its Howard University branch.
Biography
Tina Tyus-Shaw (born in Griffin, Georgia) has been a television news anchor and journalist at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia for more than 30 years. Tina wanted to be a television broadcaster at an early age, and graduated from Tennessee State University…
Biography
Tina Young Poussaint is a professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School and a Neuroradiologist at the Boston Children's Hospital. In 2010 she served as president of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology.
c. 1910
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAfrique occidentale - HAUTE GUINÉE[,] 1010. Tinturières de Kankan; CARTE POSTALE; Tous les pays étrangers n'acceptent pas la[,] correspondance au recto, se renseigner à la Poste. Published by Collection Générale Fortier, Dakar.
1890s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA tintype occupational portrait of a woman, likely a doctor or possibly a nurse or midwife, carrying a medical bag. The woman is standing tall at the center of the image, looking directly at the camera. She carries a medical bag in her proper left hand.…
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Titus Pankey (November 20, 1925 – September 20, 2003) was an American physicist and professor whose research specialties were magnetic susceptibility and cosmology, especially supernovae. He was the first recipient of a PhD in physics from Howard…
Biography
Toka Diagana (born December 27, 1967, also published as Tocka Diagana) is a Mauritanian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics and chair of mathematics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the editor-in-chief of the journal…
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