Black Inventors from Africa to America. C.R. Gibbs 1995 ISBN 1877835870

Very Good Condition. Paperback. Two Million Years of Invention and Innovation. Three Dimensional Publishing, Silver Spring Maryland. 1st Edition. Synopsis Bookstore browsers who bypass this title for whatever reason will miss an excellent opportunity to gain full knowledge of the inventiveness of humankind from ancient to modern times...Gibbs actually has exquisitely woven together several important topics, each of which is key to a complete understanding of the context of the book. The topics are: human evolution, the technological development of civilization, the sociological context into which African American inventors found themselves thrust, and the legal and political milieu which alternately helped and hindered black inventors over time...Gibbs' objective work provides a framework over which can be stretched an incredibly rich fabric of African American ingenuity and invention. ...it is an empirical study of the foundation of the development and uses of technology...