![]() Wood’s most important invention was the ‘induction telegraph’ in 1887. Woods (1856–1910) was sadly often overlooked in comparison to others who were also developing new technologies at the time, particularly Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. So every time you do a Google search you can thank Dr Philip Emeagwali! Black people who have led the way in technological developments The technology that Philip designed is used today in the system of computers that are used by all search engines. ![]() This achievement led to him earning the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, and this computing breakthrough of a practical way for computers to communicate with each other helped lead in the direction of the development of the internet. ![]() Philip designed the programme for the fastest computer on earth which was made up of over 60,000 widely distributed microprocessors and ran more than 3.1 billion calculations per second!Įmeagwali has said that his inspiration for this development came from watching bees working together in nature, and realised that he could build computer systems that can work and internally communicate like a beehive. ![]() Take a look below at a selection of some of these trailblazing and inspiring individuals: Black pioneer in the development of the internetĭr Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist who was born in the 1950s in Nigeria and moved to the US to study Mathematics and marine engineering. In this blog post we will highlight some of the Black inventors, developers and pioneers who have played an important role in technological developments over the years, but are too often overlooked. As part of Childnet’s recognition of Black History Month, we wanted to recognise some of the Black individuals who have contributed to the way that we use technology and the internet today.
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