Important Inventions and Discoveries in World » Exercise – 1
51. What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?
(a) Elijah McCoy
(b) Jan Ernst Matzeliger
(c) Ernest Just
(d) Lewis Latimer
Explanation
Explanation : Matzeliger never benefited financially from his inventions. He died in 1889 at the age of 37 from tuberculosis.
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