GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, (1864 -1943) was an American scientist, botanist, inventor, and agricultural researcher who developed hundreds of products from the peanut and sweet potato.

In 1977, George Washington Carver was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, and in 1990 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Narration:

Agricultural scientist and highly acclaimed inventor. His name – George Washington Carver.

Born to slavery in Missouri in 1864, farm life gave Carver a love of agriculture and he earned the nickname, “The Plant Doctor.”

He attended Simpson College in Iowa in 1890, then transferred to Iowa State Agricultural College in 1891, and became their first African American student, and later their first African American faculty member.

By 1896, Carver was head of the Agriculture Department of Tuskegee University, where he remained for 47 years.

Best known for developing crop rotation, his method improved cotton yields and created alternative crops. He revolutionized the Southern economy by decreasing its dependence on cotton.

Carver invented peanut butter and more than three hundred products derived from peanuts. He also created one hundred products from sweet potatoes and approximately seventy-five from pecans.

George Washington Carver – A Great American

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