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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Holmes, Keith C. Black inventors. New York : Global Black Inventor Research Projects, ©2008 (OCoLC)623233287 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Keith C Holmes |
ISBN: | 9780979957307 0979957303 |
OCLC Number: | 234711874 |
Description: | 179 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Henry E. Baker, the father of Black inventor research -- Early innovators and inventors -- Role of ancient African civilizations in the development of today's inventions and technologies -- Inventiveness and creativity are inherent in all races -- Definition of the word invention -- Africans develop their own innovations and inventions -- Black inventors' ancestral links to Africa -- World leaders in patents -- Census classification systems used to identify Black people -- What has changed from 1913 to the present? -- Black inventors educated and trained globally -- The increase in Black populations worldwide -- Earliest documented Black inventors -- Black inventors from 1769-2007 -- List of early Black inventors throughout the world, organized by state/country -- African, Caribbean and South American countries -- Pillars of American, Caribbean and South American economies -- Black inventors role in economic growth -- Influence of Black labor and inventions on the world -- Black inventors inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame -- Black inventors--pillars of industry -- Black inventors at historically Black colleges and universities -- Black inventors at colleges and universities in the United States -- Cities in the United States with Black inventors -- United States cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Native American inventors -- Black women innovators and inventors -- Prolific Black women innovators and inventors -- Prolific African innovators and inventors -- African countries with Black inventors -- African cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Prolific Black inventors from Australia -- Prolific Black Canadian innovators and inventors -- Canadian cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Prolific Black innovators and inventors from the Caribbean and Central America -- Caribbean and Central American cities and the number of Black inventor researched -- Prolific Black innovators and inventors in Europe -- European cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Black inventors in the United Kingdom -- United Kingdom cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Design patents awarded to Black inventors -- Trademarks of Black innovators and inventors -- Black innovators on sports and their trademarks -- Black innovators in the video game industry -- Where does the Black inventor stand today? -- Global Black inventor research projects, Inc. |
Responsibility: | Keith C. Holmes. |
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New, important book on Black Inventors is an eye-opener
Black Inventors - Crafting Over 200 Years of Success by Keith C. Holmes; Paperback: 179 pages * Publisher: Global Black Inventor Research Projects, Inc.; 1st Edition edition)
ISBN-10: 0979957303 *ISBN-13: 978-0979957307
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Black Inventors - Crafting Over 200 Years of Success by Keith C. Holmes; Paperback: 179 pages * Publisher: Global Black Inventor Research Projects, Inc.; 1st Edition edition)
ISBN-10: 0979957303 *ISBN-13: 978-0979957307
Available at Amazon. com and major bookshops
By Giorgio Migliavacca
It is not widely known in the Virgin Islands that during the 1970s-’80s and ‘90s, Liston Abbott, of St. Thomas USVI, was instrumental in inventing solutions that improved television signal capacity. But it is quite ironic that Caribbean inventors have had so little recognition from their own countrymen.
“People from the Caribbean have had a major impact on the world of innovation and invention...More recognition should be given to Caribbean people who have enlightened the world with their innovations and inventions,” writes Keith Holmes, author of the recently published book “Black Inventors”.
In fact, his book has brought to day-light information that substantiates his statement: “Caribbean inventors have filed patents for a significant number of inventions...and have received world recognition and awards.
Holmes lists Caribbean inventors as early as 1769, from most countries in the region including Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, USVI, St. Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago.
The author has spent almost 20 years to piece together information on black inventors. His work will undoubtedly increase readers awareness that on a global scale black inventors, both past and present, have contributed in large measure to the progress made by humanity.
This book documents a large number of inventions, patents and labor saving devices conceived by black inventors. Africans, before the era of their enslavement, developed agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth, and weapons, among many other inventions. Though many black people were brought to the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America as slaves, it is not widely known that thousands of them created saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide.
This book is divided in three main parts: the first explores the role played by ancient African inventors; the second part focuses on native African inventors; and part three delves into black inventors by geographical location, worldwide.
The material available in this book is an introduction into the world of inventions by Black inventors. It gives the reader, researcher, librarian, student and teachers the materials needed to effectively understand that the Black inventor is not one dimensional but global occurrence. This book has certainly provided an invaluable tool for those who want to research this fascinating and fertile area of world history. His book proves that “without the inventors, innovators, designers and laborers of African descent, in Africa as well as throughout the African Diaspora, western technology, as we know it today, would not exist.”
There are many significant facts to be learned from Holmes’ book, for example: the invention process did not originate in Europe; from 1900 to 1999, black inventors patented over 6,000 inventions (at least 400 of them by black women), and between 2000 and 2007, blacks patented over 5,000 inventions; nowadays American icons such as Oprah Winfrey has 61 trademarks; and a significant number of black inventors live in Europe where they have patented thousands of inventions.
This fascinating book ends with a very useful bibliography and a detailed and useful index. There are not many distractions and illustrations in this facts-packed volume and we can envision a second, a third edition in a matter of a few years. The cameo like profiles of black inventors could be expanded and some illustrations added, but the first edition is a must have for the avid reader who will learn a wealth of information not available before in one single volume.
A must have!
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