W.H. Richardson - Black History Month Project - Help! (1 Viewer)

[Long Ball Larry]

My 9-year-old daughter picked this guy for her project, as he invented the baby buggy. Well, actually, he seems to have made a modification to it that made it better and safer. Aside from that, and finding 3 different birth dates and 2 pictures that may or may not be him, we are having a hard time coming up with any info.

Someone here must be able to point me in the right direction. We've looked through 10 different black inventor books and can't find anything.

 

[SacramentoBob]

Just go with a picture of Samuel L Jackson. Her teacher will never know the difference.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Come on, folks.

 

[Parrothead]

don't forget the fried chicken and watermelon

 

[LinusMarr]

don't forget the fried chicken and watermelon

lol

I can help with this project....

 

[Hang 10]

Just go with a picture of Samuel L Jackson. Her teacher will never know the difference.

Morgan Freeman. He's supposed to be old I think.

 

[Plorfu]

Just have her show a video of a bunch of carriages collapsing with babies falling out of them, infomercial style with Benny Hill music. Then she can come out in blackface as Richardson holding the patent:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbabycarriage.htm

and tell everyone there how they'd all be dead if it wasn't for him.

 

[Fennis]

http://whrichardson.wikispaces.com/

 

[Yenrub]

Search under his full name, Well Hung Richardson.

 

[Hang 10]

We've looked through 10 different black inventor books and can't find anything.

Have you tried the world wide web yet?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

We've looked through 10 different black inventor books and can't find anything.

Have you tried the world wide web yet?

Would I be reading dirty, filthy books if I hadn't already tried that?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

http://whrichardson.wikispaces.com/

Nice.

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

And these are the top search results.

 

[Plorfu]

Tell her to pick someone else.

 

[Fennis]

http://whrichardson.wikispaces.com/

Nice.

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

And these are the top search results.

Tell your daughter to swap out to George Washington Carver

 

[Plorfu]

"W.H. Richardson invented peanut butter, which he used to feed runaway slaves as he led them north to Memphis."

 

[Long Ball Larry]

http://whrichardson.wikispaces.com/

Nice.

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

And these are the top search results.

Tell your daughter to swap out to George Washington Carver

Tell her to pick someone else.

These were my thoughts, but doesn't it teach a bad lesson? I've been working with her on lessons like "nothing worthwhile comes easily" and "always bet on black."

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Just have her show a video of a bunch of carriages collapsing with babies falling out of them, infomercial style with Benny Hill music. Then she can come out in blackface as Richardson holding the patent:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbabycarriage.htm

and tell everyone there how they'd all be dead if it wasn't for him.

I am going to have her title the project: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes some guy who may or may not have existed with a relatively good improvement to the existing baby carriage."

 

[Parrothead]

Wilt Chamberlain would be a good one to study

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

If you can't find any info on this guy, neither can your kid's teacher. Just make it up.

 

[Henry Ford]

Use google patent search and get a copy of the filed patents in his name. Should be a large number.

Here's the carriage:

https://www.google.com/patents/US405600?dq=405,600+carriage&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KWj6UojYBerAyAH6w4DYCA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA

 

[irish eyes]

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

That site is too Eurocentric. Have you tried aks.com?

Did no one else pick up on this LOL.

 

[Fennis]

http://whrichardson.wikispaces.com/

Nice.

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

And these are the top search results.

Tell your daughter to swap out to George Washington Carver

Tell her to pick someone else.

These were my thoughts, but doesn't it teach a bad lesson? I've been working with her on lessons like "nothing worthwhile comes easily" and "always bet on black."

Bolded is a good lesson for Black History Month IMO

 

[Hang 10]

I heard he also invented the piano key necktie.

 

[Plorfu]

http://whrichardson.wikispaces.com/

Nice.

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

And these are the top search results.

Tell your daughter to swap out to George Washington Carver

Tell her to pick someone else.

These were my thoughts, but doesn't it teach a bad lesson? I've been working with her on lessons like "nothing worthwhile comes easily" and "always bet on black."

OK, how about this: tell her that you need to pick someone else for this project, but, by God, you'll find out something about W.H. Richardson outside of class. This way, she's not a miserable failure at school OR a quitter.

 

[Buckfast 1]

Part of the problem with the web is that we are not seeing consistent information. This site says he was born in Baltimore: http://www.ask.com/question/who-is-the-black-inventor-w-h-richardson

And this says he was born in 1858 and that he worked closely with William Kent, who lived at least 100 years before: http://www.ask.com/question/william-h-richardson

That site is too Eurocentric. Have you tried aks.com?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Use google patent search and get a copy of the filed patents in his name. Should be a large number.

Here's the carriage:

https://www.google.com/patents/US405600?dq=405,600+carriage&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KWj6UojYBerAyAH6w4DYCA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA

So his name is William H. Richardson.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of childrens carriages in which the body is reversible in position with reference to the running-gear; and it consists in certain improvements in the invention described in my application dated November 12, 1888, and bearing the Serial No. 290,547, as will herein-after fully appear.

In the invention described in the said application the body of the carriage, when elevated, may be rotated or turned entirely around on its axial king-bolt, and it is possible that in the hands of a careless and incompetent nurse the rotation of the body could be indulged in to such an extent as to prove detrimental to the child.

The object of the present invention is therefore to prevent the complete rotation of the body by providing some part of the moving mechanism with a stop, as hereinafter described.

Basically it sounds like he invented a whole class of children's safety products, which of course is a huge business today, a whole concept of regulation, and also saved a whole lot of children because apparently these things used to tip over when the nurse or mother or whoever would spin it around.

Run with it.

(The report, not the baby).

 

[belljr]

has the 22's, hydraulics joke been done yet?