Fact: Nigger Invention Myths Debunked

[Black Plague]

Perhaps you've heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.

Such beliefs usually originate in books or articles about black history. Since many of the authors have little interest in the history of technology outside of advertising black contributions to it, their stories tend to be fraught with misunderstandings, wishful thinking, or fanciful embellishments with no historical basis. The lack of historical perspective leads to extravagant overestimations of originality and importance: sometimes a slightly modified version of a pre-existing piece of technology is mistaken for the first invention of its type; sometimes a patent or innovation with little or no lasting value is portrayed as a major advance, even if there's no real evidence it was ever used.

Unfortunately, some of the errors and exaggerations have acquired an illusion of credibility by repetition in mainstream outlets, especially during Black History Month (see examples for the traffic light and ironing board). When myths go unchallenged for too long, they begin to eclipse the truth. Thus I decided to put some records straight. Although this page does not cover every dubious invention claim floating around out there, it should at least serve as a warning never to take any such claim for granted.

Each item below is listed with its supposed black originator beneath it along with the year it was supposedly invented, followed by something about the real origin of the invention or at least an earlier instance of it.


http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/

[Black Plague]

A couple examples:


Gas Mask
Garrett Morgan in 1914? No!
The invention of the gas mask predates Morgan's breathing device by several decades. Early versions were constructed by the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse in 1854 and the physicist John Tyndall in the 1870s, among many other inventors prior to World War I. See The Invention of the Gas Mask.

Peanut Butter
George Washington Carver (who began his peanut research in 1903)? No!
Peanuts, which are native to the New World tropics, were mashed into paste by Aztecs hundreds of years ago. Evidence of modern peanut butter comes from US patent #306727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec in 1884, for a process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state." As the product cooled, it set into what Edson described as "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment." In 1890, George A. Bayle Jr., owner of a food business in St. Louis, manufactured peanut butter and sold it out of barrels. J.H. Kellogg, of cereal fame, secured US patent #580787 in 1897 for his "Process of Preparing Nutmeal," which produced a "pasty adhesive substance" that Kellogg called "nut-butter."


Traffic Signal
Invented by Garrett A. Morgan in 1923? No!
The first known traffic signal appeared in London in 1868 near the Houses of Parliament. Designed by JP Knight, it featured two semaphore arms and two gas lamps. The earliest electric traffic lights include Lester Wire's two-color version set up in Salt Lake City circa 1912, James Hoge's system (US patent #1,251,666) installed in Cleveland by the American Traffic Signal Company in 1914, and William Potts' 4-way red-yellow-green lights introduced in Detroit beginning in 1920. New York City traffic towers began flashing three-color signals also in 1920.

Garrett Morgan's cross-shaped, crank-operated semaphore was not among the first half-hundred patented traffic signals, nor was it "automatic" as is sometimes claimed, nor did it play any part in the evolution of the modern traffic light. For details see Inventing History: Garrett Morgan and the Traffic Signal.

[Undertow]

Good thread. The niggers make such outrageous claims with their nigger invention nonsense. I will do some research sometime to see what I can add to this.

[nutnice]

Not that any of us here need any proof that niggers can't invent
anything of real value, but this is still very educational.

[Dirtydan]

Very good information. Thank you for posting it.thumbsup

[Justin Igger]

The ignited negro college fund is running ads on TV about niggers inventing elevators and blood transfusions.

All fucking lies.

A couple of half niggers invented a couple of improvments to these inventions 30 to 50 years after they were already put into service and the lying thieving niggers try to take full credit for the conception of these items.

[toecutter73]

Good post BP. Niggers didn't invent anything useful. As a matter of fact, niggers didn't even know how to peel a bananna until they saw a monkey do it.

[Capt. Larsen]

I know for a fact that niggers invented AIDS from raping monkeys in the african toilet, and that pretty much sums up the total of nigger inventions.

Yep, that's it.....AIDS. The one & only nigger invention.

:geek

[gnigs_r_skum]

I know for a fact that niggers invented AIDS from raping monkeys in the african toilet, and that pretty much sums up the total of nigger inventions.

Yep, that's it.....AIDS. The one & only nigger invention.

:geek
jenkems, don't forget jenkems!
And think the niggers were in africa for tens of thousands of years longer than anyone else was and they still didn't do much beyond muh dikk, spears, hollow logs and dancing.

[Undertow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBvIGwQxuWU

[walt235]

It's funny, niggers invented all possible inventions thousands of years ago, including space travel. Then started living in mud huts and eating each other!

[NiggersNwiggersRstoopit]

Hell, niggers didn't even come up with BET. It is owned by YT. Why? I haven't a clue...

[103rapesAday]

jenkems, don't forget jenkems!
And think the niggers were in africa for tens of thousands of years longer than anyone else was and they still didn't do much beyond muh dikk, spears, hollow logs and dancing.

Don't forget showering under cow urine and cow dung bug repellents. It can also be claimed that these are deodorants as well.

:lol

[akihabro]

yah its pretty true. they either stole somebodies ideas or were too dumb to patent their ideas...if they were worth patenting. i looked at this list and checked a lot of inventions at least the ones i found important to my life and well its just a list of lies. http://www.black-collegian.com/african/inventions605.shtml. i like the one that claims that someone in egypt invented the stethoscope. no i didn't do research to see if this was true but if egyptians were black (which i know the smart and powerful ones weren't :al) then as i've learned you usually increase your intelligence as time passes. apparently they are going backwards.

[KaffirSmasher]

Okay, let's assume for a moment that all these ridiculous nigger inventions were true (bear with me a moment).

Isn't it funny that almost all of the nigger inventions were made BEFORE the niggers were considered "equal" and were actually controlled? And now, with niggers having many times more rights as they had back then, are now seemingly incapable of doing anything?

I guess the nigger lovers are just going to have to choose which they want to believe - that niggers are capable of invention but need to be kept under control, or that niggers are capable of shit.

Either way, this demolishes the excuse liberals have of "YT just keeps the niggers down" when confronted with why niggers can't achieve.