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Walter Lincoln Hawkins
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (1911-1992) was a black scientist/inventor who, while working at Bell Laboratories in the 1940s, helped to make universal telephone service possible. Hawkins developed a plastic to insulate telephone wires—a new material that was lightweight, durable, and less expensive than the lead sheathing used at the time.
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