Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801873193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 who refined adding machines. All rights reserved. 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. He details their personal lives and
Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the framework of industrial organizations that supported them and their experiments. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouché 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, Fouché 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.. Treasury Department. According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors,
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 wonderful book! A Customer 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 and explains their importance to African American people in the twentieth century. T. "Refutes the common notion that inventors were lone geniuses" according to Midwest Book Review. 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 their experiments: for blacks, this meant real challenges in working on innovativ