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1890
Multitalented Inventor​
Washington, DC
Miriam E. Benjamin studied medicine and law at Howard University and set out to transform a variety of industries with her invention of a gong and signal chair. The notification feature of the chair alerted an attendant when the seated person needed assistance with the press of a button. She also patented a shoe sole insert to deliver medication in 1917. Benjamin also worked as a teacher and composed under the pseudonym E.B. Miriam.​
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