George Washington Carver
(Diamond, 1864 - Tuskegee, 1943) Agronomist and American botanist known for its innovations in the field of agriculture. Son of slaves, was released at the end of the civil war and settled in Kansas, where he studied and graduated.
George Washington Carver
In 1894, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Agriculture of the state of Iowa and in 1896 served as director of the Department of Agriculture of the Tuskegee Institute, where numerous applied to the improvement and use of botanical species that could be alternated with farming work conducted cotton regions of the southern United States; such species were peanuts (also called groundnuts), sweet potato and soybean; species with which performed numerous experiments and which won numerous industrial uses.
Peanut came to extract more than 300 products, many foodstuffs such as oil, flour and cheese, and many other industrial, such as dyes, soaps and plastics. Sweetpotato extracted some 100 products, such as adhesives and synthetic rubber, and soybean oil and land obtained paintings with which he painted several highly recognized and prized paintings. In addition to providing alternative products for growing cotton, he also developed a new type, called hybrid cotton Carver, and provided techniques and methods for better land use.
In 1894, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Agriculture of the state of Iowa and in 1896 served as director of the Department of Agriculture of the Tuskegee Institute, where numerous applied to the improvement and use of botanical species that could be alternated with farming work conducted cotton regions of the southern United States; such species were peanuts (also called groundnuts), sweet potato and soybean; species with which performed numerous experiments and which won numerous industrial uses.
Peanut came to extract more than 300 products, many foodstuffs such as oil, flour and cheese, and many other industrial, such as dyes, soaps and plastics. Sweetpotato extracted some 100 products, such as adhesives and synthetic rubber, and soybean oil and land obtained paintings with which he painted several highly recognized and prized paintings. In addition to providing alternative products for growing cotton, he also developed a new type, called hybrid cotton Carver, and provided techniques and methods for better land use.
His work was recognized and came to consult even US presidents. In 1935 he worked in the Division of Disease Mycology and Inspection Office of Industrial Plants of the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States, and later research center Wanhington George Carver was created in Tuskegee.
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