Legendary Disney Imagineer Lanny Smoot is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, only the second member of the Disney Company to be granted the honor after Walt Disney himself. Smoot has worked for Disney for almost thirty years and is currently a Disney Research Fellow and a member of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development; over the decades, he has filed 74 patents for his work with the House of Mouse.
Even more impressively, Lanny Smoot has filed over 100 patents over the course of his career, making him one of the most prolific Black inventors in the history of the United States. Disney describes him as a “theatrical technology creator, inventor, electrical engineer, scientist, and researcher.”
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