Some of the Ghanaians inventions and Achievements you don't know about
1. Fiber optic
Thomas Mensah Is a Ghanaian based in America who invented fiber optic while working. Thomas Mensah, who recently described this innovation as the most important invention of the 21st century. According to the scientist, his inventions are used by all the giants like Facebook, Google or even Paypal. He contributed to the development of fiber optics and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015.
2. The Allotey Formalism
Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, FGA, OV was a Ghanaian mathematical physicist.He was known for the "Allotey Formalism" which arose from his work on soft X-ray spectroscopy. He was the 1973 recipient of the UK Prince Philip Golden Award for his work in this area. A founding fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, in 1974 he became the first Ghanaian full professor of mathematics and head of the Department of Mathematics and later Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
3. world's first auto-translator earbuds
Meet Danny Manu, the Ghanaian innovator whose multilanguage translator earbuds have gone viral. He is an engineer and tech entrepreneur who built the world's first auto-translator earbuds.Danny studied at Oxford Brookes University and describes his mission in life as striving to improve lives.He was recently recognised by Google for his contributions to science, arts and culture.
4. Veronica Bucket
Veronica Bucket is a mechanism for hand washing originating in Ghana which consists of a bucket of water with a tap fixed at the bottom, mounted at hand height, and a bowl at the bottom to collect waste water. The Veronica bucket was developed by Veronica Bekoe. The Veronica bucket serves as a simple way to encourage proper hand washing using flowing water. Veronica Bekoe is a biological scientist. She is credited for the invention and discovery of the Veronica Bucket used to reduce the spread of communicable diseases.
5. Flying a spacecraft in orbit while commanding and controlling it from a command center.
Ave K. P. Kludze Jr. is a Ghanaian aerospace engineer and civil servant, specializing in complex systems engineeringand design. He is a senior NASA Spacecraft Systems Engineer. Kludze has held positions at various NASA Centers including the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where he became if not the first African, the first Ghanaian to ever fly (command and control) a Spacecraft in Orbit (including the ERBS and TRMM Spececrafts, etc. for NASA from a mission control center). His achievements span across aeronautics, nanotechnology, engineering and space exploration.
6. NASA's robotic arm for Mars
Dr. Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu is the chief engineer of a team formed to design robots for NASA missions at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States.
Trebi-Ollennu not only worked on the Phoenix aircraft that found water on Mars in 2008 but also contributed to the Mars Exploration Rover project in 2003 and the Mars Science Laboratory in 2011.
AshiteyTrebi-Ollennu, FIET, FRAeS, SMIEE, PMP, FGA is a Ghanaian robotics engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the chief engineer and technical group leader for the mobility and manipulation group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.He has been associated with various NASA Mars missions, notably the Mars Rover and InSight projects. He is now a lead engineer on InSight - NASA's spacecraft which recently landed on Mars. He is in charge of the mission's robotic arm mechanism.
7. Building algorithms of Uber, Instagram and Snapchat
Iddriss Sandu, the genius who created the algorithms of Uber, Instagram and Snapchat in his twenties, Iddris Sandu has developed algorithms for Instagram, Snapchat and Uber. He has also worked with Kanye West and Jaden Smith, and was even recognized by former US President Barack Obama.
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