A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience /

'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African Americans

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Lemelson Center
Other Authors: Pursell, Carroll W
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005], ©2005
Cambridge, Mass. : c2005
Cambridge, Mass. : ©2005
Cambridge, Mass. : [2005]
Subjects:
USA
Table of Contents:
  • 1. African medicine in the new world
  • 2. New world skills
  • 3. The persistence of craft
  • 4. The new industrial age
  • 5. Finding a place in the industrial age
  • 6. Training for the industrial age
  • 7. Inventors
  • 8. The rural south
  • 9. Industrial employment
  • 10. The automobile
  • 11. Learning to fly
  • 12. War work
  • 13. After the war
  • 14. Setting a political agenda
  • 15. Ties to Africa
  • 16. Engineering careers
  • 17. Accessing the information age
  • 18. Technological troubles
  • Further readings
  • Index
  • 1 African medicine in the new world
  • Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716)
  • An account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722)
  • 2. New world skills
  • Runaway slave advertisements
  • A profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 / Lathan Algerna Windley
  • Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) / Thomas Jefferson
  • Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson
  • 3. The persistence of craft
  • Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders
  • Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass
  • The fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W. C. Pennington
  • Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • A journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) / Frederick Law Olmsted
  • His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad / John P. Parker
  • Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884)
  • U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890)
  • Tending a cotton gin (1853)
  • 4. The new industrial age
  • Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) / James F. W. Johnston
  • Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864)
  • Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851)
  • The history of the first locomotives in America (1874) / William H. Brown
  • Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834)
  • U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843)
  • U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846)
  • The Confederate Patent Act (1861)
  • 5. Finding a place in the industrial age
  • Mechanism and art (1873)
  • Using jokes to invent the expert
  • John Henry, the steel driving man (1929)
  • The Eclipse clothes wringer (c. 1880s)
  • Woman with bicycle (c. 1890s)
  • The taint of the bicycle (1902) / W. F. Fonvielle
  • 6. Training for the industrial age
  • Comments on the advisibility of instructing engineering students in the history of the engineering profession (1903) / L. S. Randolph
  • Industrial education; will it solve the Negro problem, II (1904) / Booker T. Washington
  • The training of Negroes for social power (1904) / W. E. B. Dubois
  • Industrial education - will it solve the Negro problem (1904) / Fannie Barrier
  • Working with the hands (1904) / Booker T. Washington
  • How electricity is taught at Tuskegee (1904) / Charles W. Pierce
  • Racial progress as reported in The colored American magazine (1902)
  • The American Negro artisan (1904) / Thomas J. Calloway
  • Results of some hard experiences : a plain talk to young men (1902) / William H. Dorkins
  • Manufacturing household articles (1904) / Samuel R. Scottron
  • The career of mechanic John G. Howard (1902)
  • 7. Inventors
  • The colored inventor : a record of fifty years (1913) / Henry E. Baker
  • Clara Frye, a woman inventor (1907)
  • U.S. patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "breathing device" (1914)
  • 8. The rural South
  • You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks / Sara Brooks
  • Cotton picking machines and southern agriculture
  • We (1927) / Charles Lindbergh
  • 9. Industrial employment
  • Tuskegee ideals in industrial education (1926) / Joseph L. Whiting
  • Women at work : a century of industrial change (1934)
  • The typewriter (1926) / Dorothy West
  • 10. The automobile
  • Automobiles and the Jim Crow regulations (1924)
  • Through the windshield (1933) / Alfred Edgar Smith
  • Running the red light (Tilman C. Cothran)
  • U.S. patent to G. A. Morgan for a "traffic signal" (1923)
  • 11. Learning to fly
  • Soaring above setbacks : the autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American aviator / Janet Harmon Bragg
  • Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th pursuit squadron, air unit (1942)
  • Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester
  • 12. War work
  • Negro workers and the national defense program (1942)
  • A black woman at work in a wartime airplane assembly plant
  • Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944)
  • Defense and wartime employment (1946-1947)
  • Bay area council against discrimination, San Francisco (1942)
  • 13. After the war
  • Elm City, a Negro community in action (1945) / C. L. Spellman
  • Mechanization in agriculture (1941-1946)
  • The Negro in the aerospace industry (1968) / Herbert R. Northrup
  • 14. Setting a political agenda
  • Revolution in a technological society (1971) / Samuel D. Proctor
  • 15. Ties to Africa
  • Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa
  • Solar cooking demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana / Hattie Carwell
  • 16. Engineering careers
  • Women and minorities in science and engineering
  • History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997) / Jerry Good
  • Black women engineers and technologists / Valerie L. Thomas
  • Careers in science and technology (1993)
  • 17. Accessing the information age
  • Bridging the racial divide on the Internet (1998) / Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak
  • Cyberghetto : blacks are falling through the Net (1998) / Frederick L. McKissack, Jr.
  • Troubletown (1998)
  • The black technological entrepreneur (1999) / Janet Stites
  • 18. Technological troubles
  • A place at the table : a Sierra roundtable on race, justice, and the environment, and the letter that shook a movement (1993)
  • Neighbors rally to fight proposed waste-burner (1992)
  • United States to weigh blacks' complaints about pollution (1993)
  • Presidential Executive Order 12898 - environmental justice
  • Study attacks "environmental justice" (1994)
  • New York Seminarian promotes environmental justice in Africa (1996) / Paulette V. Walker.
  • 1 African medicine in the new world
  • Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716)
  • An account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722)
  • 2. New world skills
  • Runaway slave advertisements
  • A profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 / Lathan Algerna Windley
  • Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) / Thomas Jefferson
  • Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson
  • 3. The persistence of craft
  • Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders
  • Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass
  • The fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W. C. Pennington
  • Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • A journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) / Frederick Law Olmsted
  • His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad / John P. Parker
  • Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884)
  • U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890)
  • Tending a cotton gin (1853)
  • 4. The new industrial age
  • Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) / James F. W. Johnston
  • Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864)
  • Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851)
  • The history of the first locomotives in America (1874) / William H. Brown
  • Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834)
  • U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843)
  • U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846)
  • The Confederate Patent Act (1861)
  • 5. Finding a place in the industrial age
  • Mechanism and art (1873)
  • Using jokes to invent the expert
  • John Henry, the steel driving man (1929)
  • The Eclipse clothes wringer (c. 1880s)
  • Woman with bicycle (c. 1890s)
  • The taint of the bicycle (1902) / W. F. Fonvielle
  • 6. Training for the industrial age
  • Comments on the advisibility of instructing engineering students in the history of the engineering profession (1903) / L. S. Randolph
  • Industrial education; will it solve the Negro problem, II (1904) / Booker T. Washington
  • The training of Negroes for social power (1904) / W. E. B. Dubois
  • Industrial education - will it solve the Negro problem (1904) / Fannie Barrier
  • Working with the hands (1904) / Booker T. Washington
  • How electricity is taught at Tuskegee (1904) / Charles W. Pierce
  • Racial progress as reported in The colored American magazine (1902)
  • The American Negro artisan (1904) / Thomas J. Calloway
  • Results of some hard experiences : a plain talk to young men (1902) / William H. Dorkins
  • Manufacturing household articles (1904) / Samuel R. Scottron
  • The career of mechanic John G. Howard (1902)
  • 7. Inventors
  • The colored inventor : a record of fifty years (1913) / Henry E. Baker
  • Clara Frye, a woman inventor (1907)
  • U.S. patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "breathing device" (1914)
  • 8. The rural South
  • You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks / Sara Brooks
  • Cotton picking machines and southern agriculture
  • We (1927) / Charles Lindbergh
  • 9. Industrial employment
  • Tuskegee ideals in industrial education (1926) / Joseph L. Whiting
  • Women at work : a century of industrial change (1934)
  • The typewriter (1926) / Dorothy West
  • 10. The automobile
  • Automobiles and the Jim Crow regulations (1924)
  • Through the windshield (1933) / Alfred Edgar Smith
  • Running the red light (Tilman C. Cothran)
  • U.S. patent to G. A. Morgan for a "traffic signal" (1923)
  • 11. Learning to fly
  • Soaring above setbacks : the autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American aviator / Janet Harmon Bragg
  • Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th pursuit squadron, air unit (1942)
  • Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester
  • 12. War work
  • Negro workers and the national defense program (1942)
  • A black woman at work in a wartime airplane assembly plant
  • Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944)
  • Defense and wartime employment (1946-1947)
  • Bay area council against discrimination, San Francisco (1942)
  • 13. After the war
  • Elm City, a Negro community in action (1945) / C. L. Spellman
  • Mechanization in agriculture (1941-1946)
  • The Negro in the aerospace industry (1968) / Herbert R. Northrup
  • 14. Setting a political agenda
  • Revolution in a technological society (1971) / Samuel D. Proctor
  • 15. Ties to Africa
  • Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa
  • Solar cooking demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana / Hattie Carwell
  • 16. Engineering careers
  • Women and minorities in science and engineering
  • History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997) / Jerry Good
  • Black women engineers and technologists / Valerie L. Thomas
  • Careers in science and technology (1993)
  • 17. Accessing the information age
  • Bridging the racial divide on the Internet (1998) / Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak
  • Cyberghetto : blacks are falling through the Net (1998) / Frederick L. McKissack, Jr.
  • Troubletown (1998)
  • The black technological entrepreneur (1999) / Janet Stites
  • 18. Technological troubles
  • A place at the table : a Sierra roundtable on race, justice, and the environment, and the letter that shook a movement (1993)
  • Neighbors rally to fight proposed waste-burner (1992)
  • United States to weigh blacks' complaints about pollution (1993)
  • Presidential Executive Order 12898 - environmental justice
  • Study attacks "environmental justice" (1994)
  • New York Seminarian promotes environmental justice in Africa (1996) / Paulette V. Walker.
  • 1 African medicine in the new world
  • Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716)
  • An account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722)
  • 2. New world skills
  • Runaway slave advertisements
  • A profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 / Lathan Algerna Windley
  • Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) / Thomas Jefferson
  • Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson
  • 3. The persistence of craft
  • Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders
  • Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass
  • The fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W. C. Pennington
  • Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • A journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) / Frederick Law Olmsted
  • His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad / John P. Parker
  • Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884)
  • U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890)
  • Tending a cotton gin (1853)
  • 4. The new industrial age
  • Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) / James F. W. Johnston
  • Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864)
  • Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851)
  • The history of the first locomotives in America (1874) / William H. Brown
  • Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834)
  • U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843)
  • U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846)
  • The Confederate Patent Act (1861)
  • 5. Finding a place in the industrial age
  • Mechanism and art (1873)
  • I Colonial Era 1
  • African Medicine in the New World 3
  • Cotton Mather on Smallpox Inoculation (1716) 5
  • An Account of the Method and Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox in Boston (1722) 6
  • New World Skills 7
  • Runaway Slave Advertisements 9
  • A Profile of Runaway Slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 / Lathan Algerna Windley 12
  • Advertisement for a Fugitive Slave (1769) / Thomas Jefferson 14
  • Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State, with His Answer (1792) / Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Jefferson 15
  • II Antebellum Years 21
  • The Persistence of Craft 23
  • Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders 25
  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass 29
  • The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington 37
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe 40
  • A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856) and A Journey in the Back Country (1861) / Frederick Law Olmsted 44
  • His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad / John P. Parker 49
  • Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884) 54
  • U.S. Patent to John Percial Parker for a Soil-Pulverizer (1890) 55
  • Tending a Cotton Gin (1853) 58
  • The New Industrial Age 59
  • Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social (1851) / James F. W. Johnston 61
  • Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana Plantation (1864) 64
  • Slave Labor as Reported in Nile's Weekly Register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western Review (1851) 66
  • The History of the First Locomotives in America (1874) / William H. Brown 71
  • Advertisement in The Liberator Seeking Colored Inventors (1834) 74
  • U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "Improvement in Sugar-Works" (1843) 75
  • U.S. Patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "Improvement in Sugar-Making" (1846) 87
  • The Confederate Patent Act (1861) 89
  • III War, Reconstruction, and Segregation 91
  • Finding a Place in the Industrial Age 93
  • Mechanism and Art (1873) 95
  • Using Jokes to Invent the Expert 97
  • John Henry, the Steel Driving Man (1929) 98
  • The Eclipse Clothes Wringer (c. 1880s) 100
  • Woman with Bicycle (c. 1890s) 101
  • The Taint of the Bicycle (1902) / W. F. Fonvielle 102
  • IV The Progressive Era 107
  • Training for the Industrial Age 109
  • Comments on the Advisibility of Instructing Engineering Students in the History of the Engineering Profession (1903) / L. S. Randolph 111
  • Industrial Education; Will It Solve the Negro Problem, II (1904) / Booker T. Washington 113
  • The Training of Negroes for Social Power (1904) / W. E. B. Dubois 120
  • Industrial Education-Will It Solve the Negro Problem (1904) / Fannie Barrier 127
  • Working with the Hands (1904) / Booker T. Washington 132
  • How Electricity Is Taught at Tuskegee (1904) / Charles W. Pierce 136
  • Racial Progress as Reported in The Colored American Magazine (1902) 142
  • The American Negro Artisan (1904) / Thomas J. Calloway 144
  • Results of Some Hard Experiences: A Plain Talk to Young Men (1902) / William H. Dorkins 153
  • Manufacturing Household Articles (1904) / Samuel R. Scottron 157
  • The Career of Mechanic John G. Howard (1902) 161
  • Inventors 163
  • The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years (1913) / Henry E. Baker 165
  • Clara Frye, A Woman Inventor (1907) 172
  • U.S. Patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "Breathing Device" (1914) 174
  • V Between the World Wars 179
  • The Rural South 181
  • You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks / Sara Brooks 183
  • Cotton Picking Machines and Southern Agriculture 189
  • We (1927) / Charles Lindbergh 191
  • Industrial Employment 193
  • Tuskegee Ideals in Industrial Education (1926) / Joseph L. Whiting 195
  • Women at Work: A Century of Industrial Change (1934) 199
  • The Typewriter (1926) / Dorothy West 202
  • The Automobile 209
  • Automobiles and the Jim Crow Regulations (1924) 211
  • Through the Windshield (1933) / Alfred Edgar Smith 212
  • Running the Red Light (Tilman C. Cothran) 216
  • U.S. Patent to G. A. Morgan for a "Traffic Signal" (1923) 217
  • VI World War II and the Cold War 221
  • Learning to Fly 223
  • Soaring above Setbacks: The Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American Aviator / Janet Harmon Bragg 225
  • Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th Pursuit Squadron, Air Unit (1942) 226
  • Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester 229
  • War Work 231
  • Negro Workers and the National Defense Program (1942) 233
  • A Black Woman at Work in a Wartime Airplane Assembly Plant 245
  • Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944) 246
  • Defense and Wartime Employment (1946-1947) 248
  • Bay Area Council against Discrimination, San Francisco (1942) 252
  • After the War 255
  • Elm City, A Negro Community in Action (1945) / C. L. Spellman 257
  • Mechanization in Agriculture (1941-1946) 260
  • The Negro in the Aerospace Industry (1968) / Herbert R. Northrup 265
  • VII The Movement and Beyond 277
  • Setting a Political Agenda 279
  • Revolution in a Technological Society (1971) / Samuel D. Proctor 281
  • Ties to Africa 289
  • Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa 291
  • Solar Cooking Demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana / Hattie Carwell 295
  • Engineering Careers 301
  • Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 303
  • History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997) / Jerry Good 309
  • Black Women Engineers and Technologists / Valerie L. Thomas 313
  • Careers in Science and Technology (1993) 330
  • Accessing the Information Age 339
  • Bridging the Racial Divide on the Internet (1998) / Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak 341
  • Cyberghetto: Blacks Are Falling through the Net (1998) / Frederick L. McKissack, Jr 348
  • Troubletown (1998) 352
  • The Black Technological Entrepreneur (1999) / Janet Stites 353
  • Technological Troubles 357
  • A Place at the Table: A Sierra Roundtable on Race, Justice, and the Environment, and The Letter That Shook a Movement (1993) 359
  • Neighbors Rally to Fight Proposed Waste-Burner (1992) 371
  • United States to Weigh Blacks' Complaints about Pollution (1993) 374
  • Presidential Executive Order 12898-Environmental Justice 377
  • Study Attacks "Environmental Justice" (1994) 380
  • New York Seminarian Promotes Environmental Justice in Africa (1996) / Paulette V. Walker 382.
  • Soaring above setbacks : the autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American aviator / Janet Harmon Bragg
  • Coffey School of Aeronautics (1944) and 99th pursuit squadron, air unit (1942)
  • Lt. Clarence "Lucky" Lester
  • 12 War work
  • Negro workers and the national defense program (1942)
  • A black woman at work in a wartime airplane assembly plant
  • Graduate Technicians and National Technical Association (1944)
  • Defense and wartime employment (1946-1947)
  • Bay area council against discrimination, San Francisco (1942)
  • 13. After the war
  • Elm City, a Negro community in action (1945) / C. L. Spellman
  • Mechanization in agriculture (1941-1946)
  • The Negro in the aerospace industry (1968) / Herbert R. Northrup
  • 14. Setting a political agenda
  • Revolution in a technological society (1971) / Samuel D. Proctor
  • 15. Ties to Africa
  • Mickey Leland and the USAID Bureau for Africa
  • Solar cooking demonstration in Akwasiho Village, Ghana / Hattie Carwell
  • 16. Engineering careers
  • Women and minorities in science and engineering
  • History of the National Society of Black Engineers (1997) / Jerry Good
  • Black women engineers and technologists / Valerie L. Thomas
  • Careers in science and technology (1993)
  • 17. Accessing the information age
  • Bridging the racial divide on the Internet (1998) / Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak
  • Cyberghetto : blacks are falling through the Net (1998) / Frederick L. McKissack, Jr.
  • Troubletown (1998)
  • The black technological entrepreneur (1999) / Janet Stites
  • 18. Technological troubles
  • A place at the table : a Sierra roundtable on race, justice, and the environment, and the letter that shook a movement (1993)
  • Neighbors rally to fight proposed waste-burner (1992)
  • United States to weigh blacks' complaints about pollution (1993)
  • Presidential Executive Order 12898 - environmental justice
  • Study attacks "environmental justice" (1994)
  • New York Seminarian promotes environmental justice in Africa (1996) / Paulette V. Walker
  • Using jokes to invent the expert
  • John Henry, the steel driving man (1929)
  • The Eclipse clothes wringer (c. 1880s)
  • Woman with bicycle (c. 1890s)
  • The taint of the bicycle (1902) / W. F. Fonvielle
  • 6 Training for the industrial age
  • Comments on the advisibility of instructing engineering students in the history of the engineering profession (1903) / L. S. Randolph
  • Industrial education; will it solve the Negro problem, II (1904) / Booker T. Washington
  • The training of Negroes for social power (1904) / W. E. B. Dubois
  • Industrial education - will it solve the Negro problem (1904) / Fannie Barrier
  • Working with the hands (1904) / Booker T. Washington
  • How electricity is taught at Tuskegee (1904) / Charles W. Pierce
  • Racial progress as reported in The colored American magazine (1902)
  • The American Negro artisan (1904) / Thomas J. Calloway
  • Results of some hard experiences : a plain talk to young men (1902) / William H. Dorkins
  • Manufacturing household articles (1904) / Samuel R. Scottron
  • The career of mechanic John G. Howard (1902)
  • 7. Inventors
  • The colored inventor : a record of fifty years (1913) / Henry E. Baker
  • Clara Frye, a woman inventor (1907)
  • U.S. patent to Garret A. Morgan for a "breathing device" (1914)
  • 8. The rural South
  • You may plow here : the narrative of Sara Brooks / Sara Brooks
  • Cotton picking machines and southern agriculture
  • We (1927) / Charles Lindbergh
  • 9. Industrial employment
  • Tuskegee ideals in industrial education (1926) / Joseph L. Whiting
  • Women at work : a century of industrial change (1934)
  • The typewriter (1926) / Dorothy West
  • 10. The automobile
  • Automobiles and the Jim Crow regulations (1924)
  • Through the windshield (1933) / Alfred Edgar Smith
  • Running the red light (Tilman C. Cothran)
  • U.S. patent to G. A. Morgan for a "traffic signal" (1923)
  • 11. Learning to fly