Holmes, Keith C.

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Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success

African Diaspora Archaeology NewsletterVolume 11Issue 3 September 2008 Article 149-1-2008Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Yearsof SuccessKeith C. Holmeskcholmes50@gmail.comFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adanThis New Books is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in African DiasporaArchaeology Newsletter by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contactscholarworks@library.umass.edu.Recommended CitationHolmes, Keith C. (2008) "Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success," African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter:Vol. 11 : Iss. 3 , Article 14.Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol11/iss3/14New Book Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success By Keith C. Holmes. Global Black Inventor Research Projects. Inc., Brooklyn, New York; Paperback, ISBN-13: 978-0-9799573-0-7, August 2008.  Description from the Author and Publisher:   Black Inventors clearly outlines Black inventors from over seventy countries. The author Keith C. Holmes has spent some twenty years researching information on inventions by Black people from such places as Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago to name a few. This book points out a number of the inventions, patents and labor saving devices developed by Black inventors. Africans before the period of enslavement developed a number of inventions: agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloths, and weapons are just a few examples. Though many Black people were brought to Canada, Caribbean, Central and South America and the United States in chains under the yoke of slavery, it is relatively unknown that many of them developed labor saving devices and inventions that created companies, generated money and jobs. This is one of the first books to address diversity of the Black inventors and their inventions from a global perspective. The focus of this book is to introduce the readers to the facts that inventions by black people both past and present were developed and patented on a global scale. This also means that there are inventors in every culture people whose ideas have been turned into inventions. In the past the focus has been on American and European inventors. The new giants in the patenting process are Brazil, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, South Africa and South Korea. Black inventors have from the very beginning of their involvement in the invention and patent process in Western Civilization have made important and earth shattering impact on the world. This book outlines the early Black inventors from the United States including almost all fifty-one states. It documents one of the first Black inventors to obtain a patent in the Caribbean and the United States. In the United States there are now sixteen African American men inducted in to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Two of the inventors, Jan E. Matziliger, Suriname and Elijah McCoy, Colchester, Canada were born outside the United States. Recently, Dr. Patrica Bath was nominated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Yet, there are still no African American women who have been inducted into this prestigious organization. Mr. Holmes documents inventions by Black women inventors from Africa, Canada, Caribbean, United Kingdom and the United States. For more 1Holmes: Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of SuccessPublished by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2008information call 646-610-1485, or visit our website: http://www.globalblackinventor.com/ or email info@globalblackinventor.com or kcholmes50@gmail.com. 2African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, Vol. 11 [2008], Iss. 3, Art. 14https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol11/iss3/14

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