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Each answer to the crossword is a code to redeem an item of that invention for females. All answers have no spaces.

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1. Lonnie Johnson, who grew up in Mobile, Alabama during times of segregation and was told he would not ever be more than a technician, holds over 80 patents as an inventor and is best known for inventing the ...

2. Even though he was born a slave, George Washington Carver is known for being an American scientists who loved nature and found over three hundred uses for peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. Although reports today have begun to deny it, he has often been credited with the invention of ...

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3. Born in the 1940s, Gerald (Jerry) Lawson worked as a director of engineering and marketing before he created the first home video gaming console with interchangeable cartridges. This was titled Fairchild ...

4. Although a son of runaway slaves, Lewis Latimer was able to work with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, is known for several remarkable inventions and is credited with finding how to make light bulbs cheaper and more efficient through the use of the ....

5. Despite being born in the nineteenth century to former slaves and only educated at a sixth grade level, Garrett A. Morgan was intelligent enough to invent the traffic light and hair-straightening products, improved the sewing machine and create a breathing device that would later be used as a ....