African American Inventors

OCLS - Fast Facts - African-American Inventors

Orange County Library System -- providing Orange County, Florida with information, inspiration, and imagination.

http://www.ocls.lib.fl.us/Virtual/FastFacts/fastFactDetails.asp?FastFactsID=195

Wiley::Black Stars: African American Women Scientists and Inventors ...

Meet African american women of science and invention from the early years to modern Times Patricia Bath, M.D. Miriam E. Benjamin Ursula Burns Alexa Canady, M.D.

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047138707X.html

African-American Inventors (DVD)

Ossie Davis narrates a tribute to minority inventors who pursued their dreams from inception to reality, as they contributed to the fields of science, technology, and medicine ...

http://medicine.media.psu.edu/moreInfo_02026DVD.html

Inventor of the Week: Archive

African-American Women Inventors of the Early 20th Century. Socially significant personal care items. In 1898, Ms. Lyda D. Newman patented the first hairbrush with synthetic ...

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/AAweek3.html

African American Inventors at Afrocentric Learning Tools

African American Homeschooling & Multicultural - Educational - School Supplies, News & Resources ... African American Inventors (Black Stars) By Otha Richard Sullivan $13.55 Meet ...

http://www.msoyonline.com/afrocentric-learning-tools/2006/09/15/78/

REFLECTIONS IN BLACK MUSEUM

... African-American Inventors ... Garrett Morgan (1877–1963) Garrett Morgan was an ...

http://www.reflectionsinblackmuseum.com/inventors.html

Black Inventor History - A Class Act, Black Inventors

For more than three centuries, African American inventors have been coming up with ingenious ideas. In fact, it is impossible to really know American history without ...

http://www.ideafinder.com/features/classact/black.htm

African American Inventors - MSN Encarta

You can't get a blood transfusion, stop at a traffic signal, turn on a lamp, or even put on a pair of shoes without relying on technologies and devices first patented by African ...

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/homework/?article=African_American_Inventors&ENCMauth=SiYwChwcoi2U1PoddiwxoCjYZEs1MnBlOPjVLfFW0F2jOquZme6eDFOjag4br%2bxGh8mpLsb%2bUD0%3d

Adelphia.net - Kids

Historical Inventors: A To Z - Resource to research famous inventors, including timelines and sections on women, African American, Native American, Chinese and Hispanic groups.

http://adelphia.net/kids/dir.php?path=Top%2FKids_and_Teens%2FPeople_and_Society%2FBiography%2FInventors&hv=AAc2oA

A Kid’s Guide to African American History at Afrocentric Learning ...

Along the way they will learn about inspiring African American artists, inventors, and heroes like Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, and Louis ...

http://www.msoyonline.com/afrocentric-learning-tools/2006/09/15/a-kids-guide-to-african-american-history/

African-American Inventors III: Patricia Bath, Philip Emeagwali, Henry ...

African-American Inventors III: Patricia Bath, Philip Emeagwali, Henry Sampson, Valerie Thomas, Peter Tolliver: The results of price comparing various online bookstores for ...

http://isbn.nu/1560656980

African American Registry -- Your Source for African American History

http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=2443

African-American Inventors & Inventions: African-American Railway ...

African-Americans were largely responsible for developing the railway system. Without their inventive contributions, the railway system as we know it today would never have existed

http://www.inventions.org/culture/african/railway.html

Internet Public Library: Pathfinders

Sullivan, Otha R. African American inventors. New York, Wiley, c1998. DD: J 609.2 SUL This book profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant ...

http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/78530

Ideas to Inventions: Famous African American Inventions - NTTI Lesson ...

This is an excellent site that has a sampling of the African American Inventors and their Inventions. Numerous links are also provided to help learn in-depth about a specific ...

http://www.wviz.org/edsvcs/projects/NTTI/Lesson_Plans/04_Ideas_Inventions.asp