ASWAD: New Book: Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

For Immediate Release:

Global Black Inventor Research Projects. Inc.
Tel: 646-610-1485
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Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success
(Now Available)


Brooklyn, NY. Wednesday, June 25th - Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200
Years of Success, clearly outlines Black inventors from over seventy
countries. The author Keith C. Holmes has spent some twenty years
researching information on inventions by Black people from such places as
Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria,
South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago to name a few.

This book points out a number of the inventions, patents and labor saving
devices developed by Black inventors. Africans before the period of
enslavement developed a number of inventions: agricultural tools, building
materials, medicinal herbs, cloths, and weapons are just a few examples.
Though many Black people were brought to Canada, Caribbean, Central and
South America and the United States in chains under the yoke of slavery, it
is relatively unknown that many of them developed labor saving devices and
inventions that created companies, generated money and jobs. This is one of
the first books to address diversity of the Black inventors and their
inventions from a global perspective.

The focus of this book is to introduce the readers to the facts that
inventions by black people both past and present were developed and patented
on a global scale. This also means that there are inventors in every culture
people whose ideas have been turned into inventions. In the past the focus
has been on American and European inventors. The new giants in the patenting
process are Brazil, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, South Africa and South
Korea.

Black inventors have from the very beginning of their involvement in the
invention and patent process in Western Civilization have made important and
earth shattering impact on the world. This book outlines the early Black
inventors from the United States including almost all fifty-one states. It
documents one of the first Black inventors to obtain a patent in the
Caribbean and the United States. In the United States there are now sixteen
African American men inducted in to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Two
of the inventors, Jan E. Matziliger, Suriname and Elijah McCoy, Colchester,
Canada were born outside the United States. Recently, Dr. Patrica Bath was
nominated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Yet, there are still no
African American women who have been inducted into this prestigious
organization. Mr. Holmes documents inventions by Black women inventors from
Africa, Canada, Caribbean, United Kingdom and the United States.

The material available in this book is an introduction into the world of
inventions by Black inventors. It gives the reader, researcher, librarian,
student and teachers the materials needed to effectively understand that the
Black inventor is not one dimensional but global occurrence.

Mr. Holmes is available for lectures and book signings. The book sells
for 15.00 US dollars., for more information call 646-610-1485, or visit our
website: http://www.globalblackinventor.com/ or send an email to:
info@globalblackinventor.com or kcholmes50@gmail.com