African American inventors

Author

Otha Richard Sullivan

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.