A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Description
xviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    '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.
    Notes
    "Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-386) and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0262162253 ((alk. paper))
    • 0262661993 ((pbk.))
    • 9780262162258 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780262661997 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2004057866
    OCLC
    56191833
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