Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801873193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vernon FordCopyright © American Library Association. He details their personal lives and how they coped with the hardships of invention and the strictures of race. In debunking some of the myths, including financial success and race pride, Fouche humanizes them and examines the greater significance of their work in the context of American sociological and commercial history. From Booklist Fouche takes an interesting and challenging approach to examining the lives of three black inventors: Woods, a mechanical engineer who patented an elevator signaling device, an electric railway conduit, and a steam boiler furnace; Latimer, a corporate consultant who copatented the train car lavatory; and Davidson, a federal employee w
F said Beautiful read! Captivated my attention from the very start. Beautiful read! Captivated my attention from the very start! I have not finished reading yet, but this is an enthralling display of the truth from an Afrakan man!. A Customer said A wonderful book!. Professor Fouche has written a fabulous book! Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation is clearly the most thoroughly researched book on black inventors to date. He provides a detailed account of how difficult it was for black inventors to succeed in a segregated society. His book describes the experiences of three black inventors an. Refutes the common notion that inventors were lone geniuses Rayvon Fouche's Black Inventors In The Age Of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, And Shelby J. Davidson refutes the common notion that inventors were lone geniuses who worked in relative isolation in the late 19th-early 20th century world. Most indeed developed their ideas within industrial organizations that supported
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. For African American inventors, negotiating these racially stratified professional environments meant not only working on innovative designs but also breaking barriers.In this pathbreaking study, Rayvon Fouché examines the life and work of three African Americans: Granville Woods (1856--1910), an independent inventor; Lewis Latimer (1848--1928), a corporate engineer with General Electric; and Shelby Davidson (1868--1930), who worked in the U.S. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouché ex