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Book

African American inventors

Call Numbers

  • J 609.2 S (CEN)
  • J 920 S (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Wiley, c1998.

Physical Description

x, 164 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Summary

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times.

Contents

  • Benjamin Banneker
  • Norbert Rillieux
  • Benjamin Montgomery
  • Elijah McCoy
  • Lewis Howard Latimer
  • Andrew Jackson Beard
  • Jan Earnst Matzeliger
  • Daniel Hale Williams, M.D.
  • Granville T. Woods
  • George Washington Carver
  • Madame C.J. Walker
  • Garrett Augustus Morgan
  • Ernest Everett Just, Ph.D.
  • Frederick McKinley Jones
  • David Nelson Crosthwait Jr.
  • Percy Lavon Julian, Ph.D.
  • Charles Richard Drew, M.D.
  • Claude Harvard
  • Jane Cooke Wright, M.D.
  • Meredith Gourdine, Ph.D.
  • Michael Croslin, Ph.D.
  • Earl D. Shaw, Ph.D.
  • John P. Moon
  • George E. Carruthers, Ph.D.
  • Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.

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Added Authors

James Haskins