12 Game-Changing Inventions You Didn’t Know Were Created By Black Innovators - Page 10
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Tori Jay
10. Sundial Clock
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After taking a pocket watch apart and studying its components, Benjamin Banneker made a fully functioning sundial clock out of carved wooden pieces. From this invention in the 1750’s Banneker was able to start his own watch and clock repair business.
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