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🧵 She created the gas home heating system that was a precursor to the system many people use today. Her name is Alice H. Parker, a Black woman.
BTW, that's not her photo.
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https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/parker-alice-h-1895/
🧵 She created the gas home heating system that was a precursor to the system many people use today. Her name is Alice H. Parker, a Black woman.
BTW, that's not her photo.
"Say what?"
(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/parker-alice-h-1895/
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Second, white supremacy would not allow the face of a Black woman to be the one behind such an innovative invention.
They used the face of a British white woman who was born 5 years after Parker receieved the patent. 😡
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Shoutout to Morristown, NJ, where Alice H. Parker was born, just like me! #MorristownPride
Our children are kept warm thanks to her. 😍🙏💙
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https://blackdoctor.org/meet-inventor-alice-parker-the-woman-behind-central-heating/
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/enn/what-we-know-about-alice-parker-a-hidden-figure-in-modern-heating
According to census data, Parker worked as a cook in Morristown, NJ, and lived with her husband, who was a butler. Her motivation to invent the heating furnace was due to her home not being warm enough. This was (cont)
https://www.aga.org/alice-parker-the-mother-of-natural-gas-heating/
The importance of recognizing the Contributions made to the development of technology by minorities & women is the first step towards ingraining a
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Success Stories like this Abound in the History Books!
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Historians place Parker's death around 1920.
The photo is of a British White woman who was born five years after the filing of Parker’s patent who had the same name.🙄
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https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/alice-h-parker
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Thank you for sharing Alice Parker’s story and bringing her to life, even after death. 🙏🏽
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I'm a mechanical engineer and I had never heard this before.
Remarkable.
Thomas Martin