*On this date in 1890, a Black man received a Steam Trap patent. Machinist and union activist Frank J. Ferrell was the inventor; his patent number was 428,671.
Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators
By James Michael Brodie
Copyright 1993, by Bill Adler Books, Inc.
William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York
ISBN 0-688-11536-5
