Sarah Boone

On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563[1] for her improvements to the ironing board.

[2][3] Boone is regarded as the second African-American woman to attain a patent, after Judy Reed.

[4] Along with Miriam Benjamin, Ellen Eglin, and Sarah Goode, Boone was a pioneering African-American woman inventor who developed new technology for the home.

[5] Sarah Marshall was born in Craven County, North Carolina, near the town of New Bern, in 1832.

[11] The Boone family left North Carolina for New Haven, Connecticut, before the outbreak of the American Civil War.