Ellen Eglin
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Ellen F. Eglin was an African-American inventor who invented a clothes wringer.
Sarah Boone
…regarded as the second African-American woman to be granted a patent, after Judy Reed. Other early African-American woman inventors were Miriam Benjamin, Ellen Eglin, and Sarah E. Goode. Sarah Marshall was born in Craven County, North Carolina, near the town of New Bern, in 1832. Along with her three siblings, she…
Example of a clothes wringer that was used during the 19th century.