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Lydia O. Newman is an African American who invented the hairbrush on Novemeber 15, 1898. The patent number was #614,335.

Reference:

Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators

By James Michael Brodie

Copyright 1993, by Bill Adler Books, Inc.

William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York

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a girl who invented the 1st hair brush. :)

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