Revolutionary War-era inventor Benjamin Banneker gets most of the headlines, but the story of invention by black scientists certainly did not stop there. Throughout recent centuriesand perhaps never more so than todaybrilliant and dedicated creative people of African heritage are helping to make our world better and safer with their inventions. From food refrigeration to high-tech electronics, from closed-circuit TV to 3-D glasses, from rocket science...

George and Ada embark on a journey to the Galapagos to restore George's family name and save the world from Don Nadie, head of the nefarious Society of Nobodies.

Chronicles the achievements of nine Afro-Americans responsible for inventions related to important parts of modern life such as refrigeration, electric lighting, and transportation.

Provides inspiring stories of more than twenty-five diverse American inventors from Colonial times to the present, including George Washinton Carver, Gertrude Elion, and Robert Noyce.

"From the wheel to the World Wide Web--the Cat in the Hat looks at inventors and inventions that have changed our lives."--

Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.

"Nikola Tesla was crazy smart. He invented the idea for cell phones in 1893, discovered alternating current, and invented a death ray gun. Of course, he also talked to pigeons, ate only boiled food, and was scared of women who wore jewelry. He was an insane inventor. So was Henry Cavendish, who discovered hydrogen, calculated the density of the Earth, and was so scared of people that he had to write notes to communicate. Sir Isaac Newton discovered...

"Childhood biographies of sixteen trailblazers in technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment"--

Briefly describes the life and accomplishments of Orville and Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneers.