Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson

by Rayvon Fouché

Book Overview

According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid isolation and then unveiled their discoveries to a marveling world. Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the framework of industrial organizations that supported them and their experiments. For African American inventors, negotiating these racially stratified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882702
• ISBN13: 9780801882708
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.7"