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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation
- Title
- Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation
- Subtitle
- Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
- ISBN-10
- 0801882702
- EAN
- 9780801882708
- ISBN
- 9780801882708
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Social Sciences
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 04/11/2005
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Series
- Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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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 professional environments meant not only working on innovative designs but also breaking barriers. In this pathbreaking study, Rayvon Fouche 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. Treasury Department. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouche explains how each man used invention for financial gain, as a claim on entering adversarial environments, and as a means to technical stature in a Jim Crow institutional setting. Describing how Woods, Latimer, and Davidson struggled to balance their complicated racial identities-as both black and white communities perceived them-with their hopes of being judged solely on the content of their inventive work, Fouche provides a nuanced view of African American contributions to-and relationships with-technology during a period of rapid industrialization and mounting national attention to the inequities of a separate-but-equal social order.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801882708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95812850
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Number of Pages
242 Pages
Publication Name
Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
Language
English
Subject
Science, Evolution, History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
318 g
Item Width
152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Series Title
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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