How Did George Washington Carver Contribute To The World

Hannah Adderly

English B-3

Mrs. Jones

27 April 2018 George Washington Carver

Have you ever heard of the Peanut Man? He’s better known as George Washington Carver. George had a rough childhood. He was born into slavery in Missouri and his mother was kidnapped by slave raiders. Sick and orphaned George was raised by the Carvers. Later, George was able to overcome his challenges and graduated college with a degree in botany and agriculture and also studied agricultural chemistry. George Washington Carver contributed to the world by improving health and agricultural outputs also he founded an industrial research laboratory.

Carver made more than three hundred products involving the peanut (Gates and West). He invented peanut oil to help the

George Washington Carver changed the United States and the world. Carver improved health and agricultural outputs. He traveled throughout the country enabling farmers and growers with new crop methods. The rotating of crop growing was instrumental to the increasing crop harvest. The increased crop yield helped decrease the widespread poverty and malnutrition of the farmers just as Edison enlightened America. Carver aided America’s crop

Later Carver would distribute his information. He would work day and night discovering new ways to develop new plants. Carver discovered the many purposes for of using peanuts and many more purposes for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes. According to the National Peanut Board, Carver published the research bulletin, "105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption and How to Grow the Peanut”. During that time, the boll weevil had destroyed the cotton crop and many farmers had turned to peanuts as a cash crop. In Alabama the residents witnessed the change from cotton oil mills to peanut oil factories. This benefited the consumer and the producer. Carver and the peanut industry helped save the southern part of the U.S. Inspired by curiosity, Carver continued his research on the peanut. Through separation of the fats, oils, gums, resins and sugars, he went on to find many uses for the peanut. According to the National Peanut Board, “food products ranged from peanut lemon punch, chili sauce, caramel, peanut sausage, mayonnaise and coffee. Cosmetics included face powder, shampoo, shaving cream and hand lotion. Insecticides, glue, charcoal, rubber, nitroglycerine, plastics and axle grease are just a few of the many valuable peanut products discovered by George” (Koslow). Carver made many researches in his laboratory, this helped change the