George Washington Carver
Unknown – January 5, 1943
The 1930s saw natural disasters as well as manmade ones: For most of the decade, people in the Plains states suffered through the worst drought in American history, as well as hundreds of severe dust storms, or “black blizzards,” that carried away the soil and made it all but impossible to plant crops Dr. George Washington Carver had promoted the use of crop rotation — planting such nitrogen-rich crops as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans — to improve farmland depleted by years of raising cotton. In so doing, he also worked on hundreds of new uses for such crops. Dr. George Washington Carver expertise was sought after by one of the most important of their time Henry Ford. Ford called Carver “the greatest of all my inspiring friends.” Carver assisted the Billionaire industrialist with several ideas that would revolutionize the automobile industry and lament Ford as one of the greatest men of all time. Carver present to Ford a concept that would speed up the production time of automobile, being inspired by the formation of plant vines and branches. Carver instructed Ford on how to build the first assembly line in return Ford honored his friend by naming the facility the Ford “Plant”. Dr. George Washington Carver continued to be a big asset to his lifelong friend by partnering on projects that would use plants and vegetable as alternative fuels for vehicles. Carver also provided Ford with chemical compound mixed with vegetables to for plastics parts for Ford’s vehicles which lowered the cost of parts along with lowering the initial cost of productions creating more profit for Ford.Carver went on to continues on to be the most prominent scientists and inventors of his time, as well as a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute. Carver devised over 100 products using one major corp—the peanut.
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