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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Black man did first open heart surgery

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Black man did first open heart surgery

            upcoming holidays...black history month

         Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded the Provident

Hospital and Training School Association. The school
trained Black nurses and allowed doctors of all races.
Williams insisted that the hospital have the highest
standards of procedures and sanitary conditions.
(So he was the best doctor. He was not careless and
I commend him for his safety precautions. If more doctors
do what he do, they would be better people.)
      2 and a half years later, on July 9, 1893 a
man names James Cornish was hurt in a bar fight..
Cornish was stabbed in the chest with a knife.
During his ride to Provident  Hospital he was
inching closer to death. He had went into shock
and lost a lot of blood.
        So it was up to Daniel Hale Williams to save him.
Daniel Hale Williams decided to operate on the man
so he opened the man’s chest. Williams save
the damage to Cornish’s pericardium ( also
known as the sac around the heart). He sutured it
and then applied antiseptic procedures before
closing the chest. 51 days later, James
Cornish walked out of Provident Hospital
fully recovered and lived 50 more years.
        The procedure that Dr. Daniel Hale Williams did was unheard of
until the black man Dr. Daniel Hale Wiliams did the operation.
So he was the first person to do an open heart surgery. Also
as recognition of his brilliance, he was the 1st surgeon to open the
chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of
infection.
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David Crosthwait is the BLACK inventor of heating system in Radio City Music Hall in New York

David Crosthwait is the BLACK inventor of heating system in Radio City Music Hall in New York

                                Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular

            He Made it good for people who go to Radio City Hall. You don’t

have to freeze when you go there. You can have a Warm Christmas in

the Radio City Hall. Why?

          Because of David Crosthwait: He was born in Nashville, Tennessee

and moved to Kansas City Missouri. David got a Bachelor of Science

 degree in 1913 and Master of Engineering degree in 1920.

          In 1913, Crosthwait moved to Iowa where he worked

for the Durham Company designing heating installations.

By 1925, he got the title director of the research department

leading a staff of both engineers and chemists.

        Crosthwait’s research involved heating and ventilating and he

 received 39 patents for a variety of devices like heating systems,

vacuum pumps, refrigeration methods and processes and temperature

regulating devices. One of David’s most famous creations is the

heating system for New York’s famous Radio City Music Hall.

Credit goes to this site for the information:

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/davidcrosthwait.html

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Radio City Music Hall, Manhattan

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/davidcrosthwait.html

Black Inventor Philip Emeagwali did groundbreaking computer work

Black Inventor Philip Emeagwali did groundbreaking computer work
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      Philip Emeagwali  is a black inventor who made computer usage the best it

can be. Philip make computers faster and more powerful. Lovely how an inventioncan transform it for the better! Philip  is able to performthe world’s fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1988.

Also, he can solve the largest weather forecasting equations with 128 million

points in 1990. Emeagwali implemented the first petroleum reservoir model

with complete success. He is the one who discovered how oil flows

underground, which helps to alert the petroleum industry that

massively parellel computers  can be used to recover more oil.

                That was one of America’s 20 grand challenges. Philip

Emeagwali came up with a new approach to design supercomputers

by watching and emulating patterns in nature. He also invented

the hyperball computer networks. In addition this black inventor

formulated new mathematical equations for slowly moving liquids

as well as gases like the flow within the Earth’s interior.

              Further, this black man, Philip Emeagwali set the world record

for an unprecedented parallel computer speedup of 65536 in 1990.

This experiment involved 65,536 linked computer processors and

revealed that  the speed of supercomputers can be increased

a million times.

All info found here: http://emeagwali.com/interviews/capstone_press/

              My comments:

            Wow, I want to give much kudos to this man because he

has done alot. Its brilliant that he just kept doing more and more

with computers. It just shows how brilliant and how much of a

genius he is. Also, it shows his ability to be versatile.

               Watch this man talk about his invention here: