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1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
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"Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
"A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans."--Jacket |
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English. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Community College Subscription |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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MOBIUS eMO Collection |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Community College Collection |
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Update 2018-10. |
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MOBIUS eMO Collection. |
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Technology -- United States -- History.
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Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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African Americans -- History.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING General. |
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African Americans. |
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Technology. |
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Technology Social aspects. |
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Technologie. |
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Sociale aspecten. |
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United States. |
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology |
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History. |
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Pursell, Carroll W.
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Lemelson Center.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. African medicine in the new world -- Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716) -- account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722) -- 2. New world skills -- Runaway slave advertisements -- 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 / Thomas Jefferson -- 3. persistence of craft -- Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders -- Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass -- fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W.C. Pennington -- Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- ̂ 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. 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) -- 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) -- Confederate Patent Act (1861) -- 5. Finding a place in the industrial age -- Mechanism and art (1873). |
| ISBN |
0262162253 |
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9780262162258 |
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9780262281959 |
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0262281953 |
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9786612096945 |
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6612096942 |
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1423796578 |
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9781423796572 |
| Standard# |
9780262162258 |
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eMOe182530570 |
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eMOe71000534 eMOe474165377 eMOe475437092 eMOe614962061 eMOe648223033 eMOe722563892 eMOe870341176 eMOe888568022 eMOe961552454 eMOe962681778 eMOe988417440 eMOe992019207 eMOe1037506664 eMOe1037923285 eMOe1038702203 eMOe1055341126 eMOe1058012513 eMOe1064765359 eMOe1081281698 eMOe1083607933 eMOe1153492832 eMOe1162407273 eMOe1228573703 eMOe1241847945 |
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