Posted on April 26, 2019
Born into slavery in North Carolina, Sarah Marshall Boone and her family went to Connecticut before the start of the Civil War. Boone worked as a dressmaker while raising eight children.
When you are working for pay AND raising eight children, you need all the labor-saving devices you can get. Boone noticed that a normal ironing board was almost impossible to use for women's sleeves, so she invented a narrow, curved ironing board that would work better.
And she even sought a patent for her invention. On this date in 1892, she received a U.S. patent for her improvements to the ironing board.
Not very many African American women of Sarah Boone's time became patent-holding inventors, for sure. Let's celebrate Boone today!!
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