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BLACK IN TIME: A Moment In OUR History - A. J. Beard's Jenny Coupler

Hugh Gaddy · Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 10:26PM · 1449 views

A. J. Beard's Jenny Coupler


Patent No. 594.059 Was Awarded November 23, 1897, To Black Inventor, Andrew Jackson Beard.

Despite Having No Formal Education In Engineering And Metalwork, Beard Invented An Automatic Railroad Car Coupling Device Called The Jenny Coupler.

Prior To The Jenny Coupler, Trains Were Joined Together Manually, Causing Thousands Of Railroad Workers To Lose Hands, Arms And Even Their Lives.

Born In Eastlake, Alabama, In 1850, Beard Labored For Years In Railroad Yards Where He Personally Witnessed Tragic Accidents, When Workers Tried Execute To The Rapid Procedure Of Manually Coupling Train Cars With A Pin.

Beard Sold His Lifesaving Invention To A Company For $50,000.00.

"In Order For Black History To Live, We Must Continue To Breathe Life Into It." -- Hubert Gaddy, Jr.



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Comments (4)

Hugh Gaddy Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 10:54PM

Hey Irma!!

Yes, Richard is one of my contacts here on BIA!! I haven't read the book, though. I'll have to check it out...sounds interesting!!

ROBINSON IRMA Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

Thanks again Gaddy for putting me in the great place "I" so love to be when learning something totally new about our history. (smile)

lov ya...

ROBINSON IRMA Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

@ Gaddy, have you read and of Rich's book ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND?!?

Richard Kigel is a White public school teacher, simi-retired. It is a fiction of A Black slave who invernted an air plane to excapt from salvery ...he got this idea from his love and respect for our Black history.

ROBINSON IRMA Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

Yes Gaddy he believes like Dr. Gates that we still have a lot like these tings still waiting to be discovered in our addicts...as do "I". lol (smile)


oh, did you get the message I sent last via your link you posted? (smile)

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