Historic Innovators: 9 Great African-American Women Inventors
Built with a narrow wood board, a padded cover and collapsible legs, Sarah Boone’s ironing board rid Americans of the need to place a slab of wood across two chairs to iron wrinkles out of their clothes. Boone’s ironing board was patented on April 26, 1892. It would serve as a prototype for more advanced, modern ironing boards.