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Andrew Jackson Beard

1849–1921

United States

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Andrew Jackson Beard (March 29, 1849 – May 10, 1921) was a black inventor, who introduced five improvements to the automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and 1899, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement.

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