Dear Perceptive Reader,
Lillian Lawrence
What Lighted Her Ways?
History or Her story
What God saw we understand
Kartistryku By James Poeartistry Productions
A Report made by https://www.youtube.com/@BlackHistory-q6o
DID YOU KNOW: “In this captivating and deeply researched historical story, we uncover the *untold truth of Lillian Lawrence — the Black woman who invented the laser comb decades before it was ever patented.* Long before big corporations turned light therapy into a billion-dollar beauty industry, a brilliant, self-taught inventor from Chicago had already envisioned and built a working prototype that combined light, heat, and scalp stimulation to promote hair growth”
*References:* Harris, J. (2008). *Black Women Inventors in America: Hidden Figures of Innovation*. New York: Beacon Press. Carroll, R. (2012). *The Forgotten Engineers: African American Inventors in Technology and Industry*. Chicago: South Side Historical Press. DuSable Museum Archives, Chicago, IL. “Lillian Lawrence Collection.” Accessed 2009. Thomas, K. (2015). *Lasers and Light: A History of Phototherapy in Modern Medicine*. Cambridge University Press. Bryant, M. (2020). *She Thought of Light: The Untold Story of Lillian Lawrence and the Early Laser Comb*. *Journal of African American History*, Vol. 105. U.S. Patent Office (1986). Patent No. 4,612,923. “Laser Hair Growth Stimulation Device.” Lexington International. Womack, D. (2019). *Black Beauty and Science: The Technological Roots of Hair Innovation*. New Orleans: Bayou Academic Press.
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