BLACK INVENTORS

Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success.

Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 years of Success, clearly highlights the work of Black inventors from over seventy countries. The author, Keith C Holmes, has spent more than 20 years researching information on inventions by Black people from Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, France, Germany, Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa to name a few.

This book documents a number of the inventions, patents and labour-saving devices conceived by Black Inventors. Before the period of their enslavement, Africans developed agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth, and weapons, among many other inventions. Though many black people were brought to Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the United States in chains and under the yoke of slavery, it is relatively unknown that thousands of them engineered labour-saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide.

This is one of the first books that addresses the diversity of Black inventors and their inventions from a global perspective. The material available in this book is an introduction to the world of Black inventors. It gives the reader, researcher, librarian, student and teacher the materials needed to effectively understand that the Black inventor is not only a national phenomenon, but also a global giant.

The material available in this book is an introduction to the world of inventions by Black inventors. It gives the reader, researcher, librarian, student and teacher a powerful tool to understand that the Black inventor is not only a national phenomenon, but also a global giant.

Black inventors, from the very beginning of their involvement in the invention and patenting process, have had an important and earth shattering impact on the world. This book highlights the work of early Black inventors from almost all 50 states in the US. It gives details about the first Black inventor who obtained a patent in both the Caribbean and the United States. In the United States, to date, 16 African American men have been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Two of these inventors, Jan E. Matzeliger, (Suriname) and Elijah McCoy, (Colchester, Canada) were born outside the United States. Recently, Dr. Patricia Bath was nominated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame; yet, an African American woman has not been inducted into this prestigious organization. Mr. Holmes documents the creativity of Black women inventors from Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, and provides readers with a comprehensive view of the ground-breaking achievements of Black inventors – both male and female.

Finally a cohesive work that chronicles the legacy of black inventors who have played an invaluable role in engineering the technologies of the modern world. This book is now a part of the Mississippi Library Commission book collections and can purchased through of number of outlets. It is also listed on www.worldcat.org

The book sells for 15.00 US dollars and can be shipped globally. For more information email info@globalblackinventor.com or kcholmes50@gmail.com or visit www.globalblackinventor.com