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. |
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... inventors of any art machine , manufac- ture or composition of matter , or any new or useful improvement of any art , machine , man- ufacture or composition of matter , not known or used before his application , are requested to make ...
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... Inventors ( 1834 ) 74 U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an " Improvement in Sugar - Works " ( 1843 ) 75 U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an " Improvement in Sugar - Making " ( 1846 ) 87 The Confederate Patent Act ( 1861 ) 89 ...
... Inventors ( 1834 ) 74 U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an " Improvement in Sugar - Works " ( 1843 ) 75 U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an " Improvement in Sugar - Making " ( 1846 ) 87 The Confederate Patent Act ( 1861 ) 89 ...
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... Inventors 163 The Colored Inventor : A Record of Fifty Years ( 1913 ) 165 Henry E. Baker Clara Frye , A Woman Inventor ( 1907 ) 172 U.S. Patent to Garret A. Morgan for a " Breathing Device " ( 1914 ) V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS 179 8 The ...
... Inventors 163 The Colored Inventor : A Record of Fifty Years ( 1913 ) 165 Henry E. Baker Clara Frye , A Woman Inventor ( 1907 ) 172 U.S. Patent to Garret A. Morgan for a " Breathing Device " ( 1914 ) V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS 179 8 The ...
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Table des matières
COLONIAL ERA | 1 |
New World Skills | 7 |
1792 | 15 |
ANTEBELLUM YEARS | 21 |
The New Industrial Age | 59 |
WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND SEGREGATION | 91 |
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | 107 |
Inventors | 163 |
1227 | 231 |
Bay Area Council against Discrimination San Francisco 1942 | 252 |
After the War | 255 |
THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND | 277 |
Ties to Africa | 289 |
Engineering Careers | 301 |
Accessing the Information Age | 339 |
Technological Troubles | 357 |
BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS | 179 |
9 | 193 |
VI | 221 |
Neighbors Rally to Fight Proposed WasteBurner 1992 | 371 |
Further Readings | 385 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
aerospace industry African African-Americans agricultural American areas artisans Benjamin Banneker Black Engineers Black women civil colored companies cooking cotton defense discrimination economic Electrical Engineering employed employers employment environmental justice environmental racism evaporator factory farm field foundry graduates hand hired home computer improvement increased Industrial Education Institute Internet invention inventors John Henry large number machine manufacturing master mechanical Mickey Leland movement National Native American Negro labor Negro women non-white Norbert Rillieux occupations Office operatives opportunities organizations percent plant plantation President problem race racial Reprinted saccharine juice Science Sierra Club sirup skilled and semiskilled slave slavery social society solar South South Carolina Southern steam technical things tion trade Tuskegee Tuskegee Institute United University Virginia W. E. B. Dubois Washington woman young