Dentist and inventor George Franklin Grant patents an improved wooden golf tee.
At a Glance
- Date
- 12 December 1899
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Key people
- George Franklin Grant
- Category
- Science, Medicine & Invention
- Source
- U.S. Patent No. 638,920 (1899) · U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
What It Meant Then
One of Harvard's first Black faculty members, he pursued invention as an avocation.
What It Means Now
Grant is recognized among the Black inventors of everyday objects.
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