Bessie Virginia Blount Research Paper

Bessie Virginia Blount was born on November 24, 1914, in Hickory, Virginia. During World War II as a part of her work working with wounded soldiers,, Blount invented a device to help amputees feed themselves, the apparatus. She invented the electric feeding device in 1951, a feeding tube that delivered one mouth full of food at a time. Blount device was not accepted by the American Veteran’s Administration, so Blount sold it to the French Government. Bessie Blount was once a physical therapist for Theodore Edison son of famed inventor Thomas Edison. Blount and Edison became very close friends while in his home Blount invented the disposable cardboard emesis basin, this invention was also rejected by the American Veterans Administration and