The Inventive Spirit Of African Americans

Author : Patricia Carter Sluby
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inventive Spirit of African Americans written by Patricia Carter Sluby and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study, former United States primary patent examiner Patricia Carter Sluby pays homage to the inventive spirit of African Americans. Beginning with the contributions of enslaved Africans brought to American shores, Sluby introduces inventors and patent holders from all fields up to and including the leading edge of today's technology. Along with such recognizable figures as George Washington Carver and Madam C. J. Walker, readers will discover little-known or forgotten pioneers of devices such as a tobacco substitute, a home security system, and a portable heart monitor. Particular attention is given to the innovations of women inventors and scientists. Products to ease domestic life, promote the efficiency of industrial processes, and improve the safety of leisure activities all bear the hallmarks of these creative minds. Sluby details the plight of inventive slaves during the antebellum and Civil War eras. She juxtaposes their efforts with those of free blacks of the same period. Reconstruction saw significant agricultural and industrial innovations by African Americans, some of which would permanently change American industry. Military inventions during the course and aftermath of both world wars showcase the diversity of minority ideas in an age of rapid technological advances. The closing chapter recounts the ongoing efforts of modern thinkers and their contributions in the high-tech and medical fields at the vanguard of the new century.

Author : Patricia Carter Sluby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors written by Patricia Carter Sluby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race. Successful entrepreneurs and inventors share valuable characteristics like self-confidence, perseverance, and the ability to conceptualize unrealized solutions or opportunities. However, another personality trait has been required for African Americans wishing to become business owners, creative thinkers, or patent holders: a willingness to overcome the additional barriers placed before them because of their race, especially in the era before civil rights. The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors provides historical accounts of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship among black Americans, from the 19th century to the present day. The author examines how these individuals stimulated industry, business activity, and research, helping shape the world as we know it and setting the precedent for the minority business tradition in the United States. This book also sheds light on fascinating advances made in metallurgy, medicine, architecture, and other fields that supply further examples of scientific inquiry and business acumen among African Americans.

Author : Anthony T Craft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Inventors and Inventions written by Anthony T Craft and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, "African American Inventors and Inventions," is a testament of the resilience, brilliance and indomitable spirit of African American inventors who have shaped the course of history. Through their ingenuity, these visionaries have overcome adversity and left an enduring legacy that continues to inspire generations. This book serves as a tribute to their achievement, a source of inspiration for aspiring inventors, and a reminder of the limitless potential that lies within us all. As we celebrate these innovations of color, we are reminded that the pursuit of knowledge, creativity, and determination knows no boundaries. This is the prime opportunity for you to step into the captivating world of "Innovations of Color," a comprehensive exploration of the remarkable achievements and groundbreaking inventions by African Americans visionaries. This meticulously researched and thoroughly curated book invites readers on a journey through the archives of history, shedding light on the ingenuity, resilience, and creativity of African American inventors who have left an incredible mark on the very fabric of innovation. Begin your odyssey with the trailblazers who paved the way for future generations of inventors. Discover the extraordinary stories of self-taught mathematicians and astronomers whose individual inventions played a crucial role in the planning of the nation. Explore the very legacies that have contributed to saving lives and improving the safety of our public. Venture into the realm of consumer goods and household innovations that have become integral to our daily routines. Learn about African American trailblazers who not only became the first of their kind, but also revolutionized the industries of the entire world. Dive into the captions of many of our pioneer African American inventors, whose inventions transformed the landscape of various industries of our country. Embark and on a journey through the evolution of transportation, electricity, ophthalmology, surgery, and numerous other industries that revolutionized and greatly improved the industry, all guided by the brilliance of minds of African American inventors who thought of ideas to improve and make their work easier. Unearth the legacies of African American inventors that conveyed their industries to another level. Navigate the complex worlds of medical innovation pioneered by African American inventors. Encounter the remarkable stories of 100 inventors who laid the foundation for the modern medical field, all that transformed their industries in many ways. Enter the digital age and explore the contributions of African American inventors to the world of technology. Meet computer scientists, and engineers who played a pivotal role in the development of inventions that are still in use today. Meet first female and male patent owners who have changed the heartbeat of the entire world with their brilliant minds and ideas. Celebrate the creativity and contributions of African American inventors in the realm of arts and entertainment. Discover the genius of several African American inventors whose inventive spirits also led to the revolutionized entertainment industry, science, transportation, culinary, health and beauty, landscape and many more industries. This book, "African American Inventors and Inventions," is a testament of the resilience, brilliance and indomitable spirit of African American inventors who have shaped the course of history. Through their ingenuity, these visionaries have overcome adversity and left an enduring legacy that continues to inspire generations. This book serves as a tribute to their achievement, a source of inspiration for aspiring inventors, and a reminder of the limitless potential that lies within us all. As we celebrate these innovations of color, we are reminded that the pursuit of knowledge, creativity, and determination knows no boundaries.

Author : Patricia Carter Sluby
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780275966744
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inventive Spirit of African Americans written by Patricia Carter Sluby and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study, former United States primary patent examiner Patricia Carter Sluby pays homage to the inventive spirit of African Americans. Beginning with the contributions of enslaved Africans brought to American shores, Sluby introduces inventors and patent holders from all fields up to and including the leading edge of today's technology. Along with such recognizable figures as George Washington Carver and Madam C. J. Walker, readers will discover little-known or forgotten pioneers of devices such as a tobacco substitute, a home security system, and a portable heart monitor. Particular attention is given to the innovations of women inventors and scientists. Products to ease domestic life, promote the efficiency of industrial processes, and improve the safety of leisure activities all bear the hallmarks of these creative minds. Sluby details the plight of inventive slaves during the antebellum and Civil War eras. She juxtaposes their efforts with those of free blacks of the same period. Reconstruction saw significant agricultural and industrial innovations by African Americans, some of which would permanently change American industry. Military inventions during the course and aftermath of both world wars showcase the diversity of minority ideas in an age of rapid technological advances. The closing chapter recounts the ongoing efforts of modern thinkers and their contributions in the high-tech and medical fields at the vanguard of the new century.

Author : Patricia Carter Sluby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313363366
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors written by Patricia Carter Sluby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race. Successful entrepreneurs and inventors share valuable characteristics like self-confidence, perseverance, and the ability to conceptualize unrealized solutions or opportunities. However, another personality trait has been required for African Americans wishing to become business owners, creative thinkers, or patent holders: a willingness to overcome the additional barriers placed before them because of their race, especially in the era before civil rights. The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors provides historical accounts of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship among black Americans, from the 19th century to the present day. The author examines how these individuals stimulated industry, business activity, and research, helping shape the world as we know it and setting the precedent for the minority business tradition in the United States. This book also sheds light on fascinating advances made in metallurgy, medicine, architecture, and other fields that supply further examples of scientific inquiry and business acumen among African Americans.

Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307874338
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flash of the Spirit written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

Author : Michael Henry Adams
Publisher : Hachette Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821228470
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style and Grace written by Michael Henry Adams and published by Hachette Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the African-American tradition of style and creativity in home design and decoration, this richly illustrated study looks at the unique homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, photographer Gordon Parks, Congressman Charles Rangel, and other African-American artists and professionals. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Carolyn Mazloomi
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of the Cloth written by Carolyn Mazloomi and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.

Author : James Sidbury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886415
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming African in America written by James Sidbury and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "African" from a degrading term connoting savage people to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade. In this wide-ranging work, Sidbury first examines the work of black writers--such as Ignatius Sancho in England and Phillis Wheatley in America--who created a narrative of African identity that took its meaning from the diaspora, a narrative that began with enslavement and the experience of the Middle Passage, allowing people of various ethnic backgrounds to become "African" by virtue of sharing the oppression of slavery. He looks at political activists who worked within the emerging antislavery moment in England and North America in the 1780s and 1790s; he describes the rise of the African church movement in various cities--most notably, the establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church as an independent denomination--and the efforts of wealthy sea captain Paul Cuffe to initiate a black-controlled emigration movement that would forge ties between Sierra Leone and blacks in North America; and he examines in detail the efforts of blacks to emigrate to Africa, founding Sierra Leone and Liberia. Elegantly written and astutely reasoned, Becoming African in America weaves together intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and political threads into an important contribution to African American history, one that fundamentally revises our picture of the rich and complicated roots of African nationalist thought in the U.S. and the black Atlantic.

Author : Robert Bone
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813550432
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse in Bronzeville written by Robert Bone and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history from the early 1930s to the cold war, and the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakenting that occurred on Chicago's South Side -- from cover.