A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American ExperienceCarroll W. Pursell MIT Press, 2005 - 397 pages 'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African Americans. |
Table des matières
COLONIAL ERA | 1 |
New World Skills | 7 |
1792 | 15 |
ANTEBELLUM YEARS | 21 |
1861 44 | 23 |
Conductor on the Underground Railroad | 49 |
U S Patent to John Percial Parker for a SoilPulverizer 1890 | 55 |
WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND SEGREGATION | 91 |
WORLD WAR II AND THE COLD WAR | 221 |
1942 | 229 |
After the War | 255 |
THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND | 277 |
Ties to Africa | 289 |
Engineering Careers | 301 |
Accessing the Information Age | 339 |
Technological Troubles | 357 |
Training for the Industrial Age | 109 |
Inventors | 163 |
BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS | 179 |
Industrial Employment | 193 |
The Automobile | 209 |
Neighbors Rally to Fight Proposed WasteBurner 1992 | 371 |
Presidential Executive Order 12898Environmental Justice | 377 |
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