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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by drewcoo on Thursday December 19, 2024 @12:21PM (#42463609)
> I cannot think of any technology developed by slaves.

No thinking needed. A quick search turns this up:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/with-patents-or-wi...

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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by WalterBright on Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:18PM (#42467968)
It does indeed mention 3 inventions by slaves, and then a number of inventions by free men. For some perspective, here's an accounting of the number of patents by year:

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h_counts.h...

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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by Eisenstein on Friday December 20, 2024 @03:11PM (#42474550)
The whole point is that such evidence would not exist in the first place, so 3 examples are actually statistically significant and indicate that there are a whole lot more than that.
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