Black Woman Invented Airplane Call Button in 1888 The incredible story of Miriam E. Benjamin - the Black schoolteacher who invented the Gong and Signal Chair in 1888, becoming only the second African American woman to receive a U.S. patent! Her hotel chair button system became the foundation for modern airplane call buttons and was even adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives. She was also a patent attorney, composer, and inventor of medical shoe technology. Every time you press a flight at

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