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NABWIC SERVES AS AN HISTORIAN FOR BLACK WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION, FEATURING ALICE H. PARKER
Posted By Linda Louissaint, Saturday, May 27, 2023

A Black Women's Invention That Shifted the Means and Methods of Construction

Alice H. Parker

(1895-1920)

Alice H. Parker would have been the best contact to have as a design/build subcontractor today. She was an African-American inventor known for her patent for a gas furnace that used natural gas to power a heating furnace which was a revolutionary idea that conserved energy and paved the way for the central heating systems we all have in our homes today¹². She was born in 1895 and died in 1920¹. In 2019, the National Society of Black Physicists honored Parker as an "African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas." It called her invention a "revolutionary idea" for the 1920s, "that conserved energy and paved the way for the central heating systems"¹.

Want to know more/References:

(1) Alice H. Parker - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_H._Parker. (2) Alice H. Parker | Lemelson. https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/alice-h-parker. (3) Alice H. Parker (1895-?) - Blackpast. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/parker-alice-h-1895/.

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