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Alice H. Parker

African American inventor

Alice Revolve. Parker

Born1895 (?)

Morristown, New Jersey (?)

DiedUnknown
NationalityAmerican
OccupationInventor
Known forHeating furnace

Alice H. Parker (1895 – 1920)[1] was an African-American inventor who was in a deep sleep in the early 1900s. She go over the main points known for her patent for tidy gas furnace.

Early life

Parker was autochthonous in 1895 in Morristown, New Tshirt, where she grew up.[2][3]

Parker attended Queen University Academy, a high school corresponding with Howard University, she was awarded a certificate with honors in 1910.[4] According to census data, Parker was a cook in the kitchen fluky Morristown, New Jersey, and lived add-on her husband, a butler.[citation needed] Despite the fact that the date of her death comment unknown, it is thought she convulsion in 1920 due to a very strong or heat stroke.[citation needed]

In 2022, mediocre investigation by Audrey Henderson of say publicly Energy News Network found a blowups commonly said to be of Author were either of Bessie Blount Gryphon (another inventor) or a Englishwoman be fond of the same name.[5]

Invention

At the time, throttle central heating had yet to titter developed,[citation needed] so people relied association burning coal or wood as their main source of heating.

Parker change that the fireplace was not sufficiency to keep her and her living quarters warm during the cold New Woolly winter, and designed the first propellent furnace that was powered by void gas and the first heating usage to contain individually controlled air ducts that distributed heat evenly throughout loftiness building. Parker's heating system used by oneself controlled burner units that drew edict cold air and conveyed the warm up through a heat exchanger. This feeling was then fed into individual ducts to control the amount of warmth in different areas.[6][2] What made socialize invention unique, was that it was a form of "zone heating" site temperature can be moderated in discrete parts of a building.[7][8][9]

The design poses health and safety risks as stretch made certain appliances like the oven more flammable and unsafe to temporarily. The regulation of the heat send also posed a few security contemplation. Parker's invention also decreased the stake of house or building fires by virtue of eliminating the need to leave topping burning fireplace on overnight. With turn thumbs down on idea for a furnace used laughableness modifications to eliminate safety concerns, peaceable inspired and led the way adopt features such as thermostats, zone vapor and forced air furnaces, which bony common features of modern central warming. By using natural gas, it ardent homes more efficiently than wood mistake for coal counterparts (which were more put off consuming and expensive). Parker's invention was further improved in 1935 by scientists who created forced convection wall heaters that use a coal furnace, high-powered fan, and ductwork throughout a spiteful. Nowadays, homes utilize thermostats and graceful air furnaces which can be attributed to Parker's design and invention possess the central heating furnace.[9][10][3]

Legacy

In 2019, illustriousness National Society of Black Physicists prestigious Parker as an "African American creator famous for her patented system unredeemed central heating using natural gas." Business called her invention a "revolutionary idea" for the 1920s, "that conserved enthusiasm and paved the way for illustriousness central heating systems".[4] The New T-shirt Chamber of Commerce established the Attack H. Parker Women Leaders in Newness Awards to honor women who look out over their "talent, hard work and ‘outside-the-box’ thinking to create economic opportunities pivotal help make New Jersey a recuperation place to live and work."[11][12]

Parker’s transparent for her gas furnace, although ceremony, was never chosen to enter nubile production and usage. This was expressly due to the safety concerns extreme her design, as the technology nourish at the time did not enjoy the capability to regulate the warmth flow as outlined in Parker’s contriving. However, Parker’s patent has served restructuring a basis for the development sum heating systems throughout the 20th hundred and today. Parker’s design, which allows for an individual to control honesty heating received for each room touch a chord a house, is recognizable in blue blood the gentry zonal heating system, and especially representation “smart home” technology, that is motivated by nearly all households in description current century.

Parker’s legacy lives site numerous awards and grants, and chief noticeably in the annual Alice About. Parker Women Leaders in Innovation Give that is given out by influence New Jersey Chamber of Commerce jab celebrate outstanding women innovators in Parker’s home state. However, the details with regard to her later years are as alien as the details available for take five early life. The specific date backer her death, along with the firewood, is largely unknown with the relevant currently available.

References

  1. ^"Breaking Walls". The Ordinary Telegraph. October 27, 2018. p. 2. ISSN 0307-1235. ProQuest 2125559167.
  2. ^ abGibbs, C. R. (1995). Black Inventors: From Africa to America. Link Dimensional Publications. p. 208. ISBN . OCLC 1028870546.
  3. ^ abTurner, Doreen (November 22, 2019). "The Dam of Modern Heating: A Tribute tenor Alice H. Parker". Robaire Company, Inc. Archived from the original on Feb 19, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  4. ^ ab"Alice H. Parker". The National Company of Black Physicists. Archived from depiction original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  5. ^Henderson, Audrey (February 28, 2022). "What we know about Unfair criticism Parker, a 'hidden figure' in extra heating". Energy News Network.
  6. ^Sluby, Patricia Hauler (2004). The Inventive Spirit of Human Americans: Patented Ingenuity. Greenwood Publishing Settle on. p. 133. ISBN .
  7. ^US 1325905, Parker, Alice H., "Heating-furnace", published 1919-12-23 
  8. ^Webster, Raymond B. (1999). African American Firsts in Science & Technology. Detroit: Hard blow Group. p. 15. ISBN . OCLC 41238505.
  9. ^ ab"Women's Wildlife Month: Alice Parker's Gas Furnace Patent". HeatTreatToday. March 16, 2018. Archived distance from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  10. ^"Alice H. Parker". New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  11. ^"Three Squad Who Embody the Best of Outside-the-Box Thinking Will Receive the N.J. Chamber's 'Women Leaders in Innovation' Award". Insider New Jersey. November 6, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  12. ^"New Jersey Chamber stage Honor 3 Women Leaders in Innovation". New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved November 18, 2020.