Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions

by James Haskins and Jim Haskins

Book Overview

The art of invention knows no color. But in the early days, patents for new inventions were not available to blacks. Until they were considered citizens, black inventors were ignored, or their masters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802769934
• ISBN13: 9780802769930
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Perfect Combination of Personal and Invention Details

This book is a must read for students (and teachers). Each short chapter describes different black inventors (men and women). The easy to follow writing will keep a student interested with its combination of personal information, facts about their inventions and facts about issues related to that time period. Find answers to the time period in which blacks were not even allowed to receive patents, which black inventors worked with Thomas Edison and why George Washington Carver never saw his mother again.