MISGUIDED MAGAZINE SPRING 2020

VOL 4
SCIENTISTS
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and
inventor. He was the first black student at Iowa State. After
graduating he became a teacher and research scientist. He was
hired in 1896 by Booker T. Washington to run the agricultural
department at Tuskegee Institute. He discovered over 300
uses for the peanut. He actively promoted alternative crops to
cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most
prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
Source: biography.com/scientist/george-washington-carver
BENJAMIN BANNEKER
Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American
almanac author, surveyor, astronomer, and inventor.
Banneker had little formal education and was largely
self-taught. He was approached in February 1791 by his
friend Andrew Ellicott to survey the land staked out for
the new United States capital. When L’Enfant, the civil
engineer commissioned to design the capitol left the
project, he took all the designs with him, leaving the
project in disarray. According to writer Gaius Chamberlain,
“Banneker surprised them when he asserted that he
could reproduce the plans from memory and in two days
did exactly as he had promised.”
Source: biography.com/people/benjamin-banneker-9198038
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