The Black Inventors Hall of Fame, a nonprofit, aims to open the museum in West Orange, where Thomas Edison once lived and worked.
A nonprofit celebrating African American and Black innovation is on the cusp of opening the country's first museum dedicated to Black inventors in a New Jersey community that boasts the motto "where invention lives."
Howard, whose more than 20 patents include one for a neonatal pressure relief valve that helps resuscitate infants at birth, told Gothamist that he let the idea of opening a museum “sort of marinate” after the interview. He said the nonprofit is currently doing due diligence and and inspecting the site. After that, the nonprofit will need additional town approvals to move ahead on the plan to renovate the existing structure.
“The problem was because of the oppression and because of the uphill climb that it took from a lack of franchise, we simply were not as successful in terms of completing that patent journey, as the white counterparts,” he said.
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