This year’s African American Steering Committee wants to pay attention to some of the long history, including famous creativity, craftsmen, scientists and leaders. Cutting black “You know?” this year will celebrate the invention of inventors and their everyday objects that help storytelling in movies and TV.
Alfred L. Cralle
1866-1919
Cralle went to Washington, D.C. and attended Wayland Seminary, one of several schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to help the United States Educate blacks after the Civil War. He settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a pharmacy and hotel porter for the first time. Alfred noticed the difficulty of putting a spoon on the ice cream server, so he developed the ice cream scoop. On June 10, 1896, Cralle applied for his invention patent. On February 2, 1897, he received an application of 576,395. The patented “Ice Cream Mold and Disc” is an ice cream scoop with a built-in spatula that can be operated with one hand. Alfred’s functional design is reflected in a modern ice cream scoop. After the end of the American Civil War, Alfred L. attended a local school and worked with his father in the woodworking trade with him when he was young, and was interested in the mechanism.
