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African American inventors / Otha Richard Sullivan. |
| Authors: | Sullivan, Otha Richard, 1941- |
| Call number: | j926 SUL |
| Publisher: | New York : Wiley, c1998. |
| Publication date: | c1998. |
| Subject: |
African American inventors -- Biography.
Inventors African Americans -- Biography. Juvenile literature. |
| Series title: | Black stars (New York, N.Y.) |
| Title: | African American inventors / Otha Richard Sullivan. |
| Physical description: | x, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | Benjamin Banneker -- Norbert Rillieux -- Benjamin Montgomery -- Elijah McCoy -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Andrew Jackson Beard -- Jan Earnst Matzeliger -- Daniel Hale Williams, M.D. -- Granville T. Woods -- George Washington Carver -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Garrett Augustus Morgan -- Ernest Everett Just, Ph. D. -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. -- Percy Lavon Julian, Ph. D. -- Charles Richard Drew, M.D. -- Claude Harvard -- Jane Cooke Wright, M.D. -- Meredith Gourdine, Ph. D. -- Michael Croslin, Ph. D. -- Earl D. Shaw, Ph. D. -- John P. Moon -- George E. Carruthers, Ph. D. --Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph. D. |
| Summary note: | Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0471148040 (cloth : alk. paper) : |
| LCCN: | 97046932 /AC |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|508893 |
| Bib No.: | 508893 |