Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) - Softcover

Fouche, Rayvon

 
9780801882708: Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801882702 ISBN 13: 9780801882708
Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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 FouchZ 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, FouchZ 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, FouchZ 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rayvon FouchZ is an assistant professor in the department of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Verlag
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801882702
ISBN 13 
9780801882708
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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