The Afterburner installed on a GBA, showing internal lighting. The Afterburner lighting kit by Triton Labs is an aftermarket modification to the Game Boy Advance in which a frontlight is installed into the unit.
Thomas Jennings became the first African-American patent holder when he patented a method for dry-cleaning clothes. Thomas Jennings became the first African-American patent holder when he patented a method for dry-cleaning clothes. Thomas Jennings, the First African-American Patent Holder Search the site GO
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859) was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S., paving the way for future inventors of color to gain exclusive rights to their inventions. Born in 1791, Jennings lived and worked in New York City as a tailor and dry cleaner. He invented an early method of dry cleaning called dry scouring and patented it in 1821âfour years before Paris tailor Jean Baptiste Jolly refined his own chemical technique and established what many people claim was historyâs first dry cleaning business.