Granville Tailer Woods was an African-American inventor. He is also the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. he invented and sold 57 different kinds of devices and machine parts, including a folding ironing board (for which he received a patent) and a lawn sprinkle.

Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician, medical doctor, Chemical Engineer and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

Elijah J. McCoy was a black Canadian-American inventor and engineer, who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most to do with lubrication of steam engines. In 1888 he developed overhead electric conducting lines for railroads, in 1889 he filed a patent for an improved steam boiler furnace, and in 1892 he patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph.

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descent and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license.