6016. This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece.

A. Bessie Blount
B. Marjorie Joyner
C. Mae Jamison
D. Beulah Henry
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Unfortunately Blount could never get anyone to buy her invention. Finally, in 1952 she sold the rights to the French government.

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