5 things that wouldn’t exist without black people

Life without black people isn’t life as we know it at all.

We can think of at least 5 ways your life, especially in Dayton, would be awful if black people didn’t exist.

But first, let’s take a moment to rejoice in the fact that this is not the case:

Here are five wonderful things we’d have to live without if it had not been for an African-American inventor.

1. Ice Cream Scoops

| Alfred L. Cralle

File Photo

Graeter’s Ice Cream

Fronana

and

United Dairy Farmers

would be useless without Cralle’s pioneering efforts, which created the ice-cream scooper.

2. Potato Chips | George Crum

Source: myDaytonDailyNews

Before

ExploreMikesell’s

, there was George Crum. He’s the inventor of our favorite salty snack: the potato chip.

3. Furnace | Alice Parker

Source: inventors.about.com

If it had not been for Alice Parker's invention of the furnace, how on earth would we be able to survive winter in Dayton? We’d be freezing our buns off.

4. Traffic Light | Garrett Morgan

File Photo

Garrett A Morgan inventions helped keep our intersections safe and took the guesswork out of knowing which line of traffic had the right of way.

5. Super Soaker | Lonnie G. Johnson

Source: Facebook/HBCUstory

Let’s be real: our summers in the city would’ve been really lame without the Super Soaker, which was invented by Lonnie G. Johnson.

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