For Immediate Release


    Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success

Brooklyn, NY. Tuesday, Nov. 29th - Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, clearly highlights the work of Black inventors from over seventy countries.  The author, Keith C. Holmes, has spent more than twenty years researching information on inventions by Black people from Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, to name a few.  One cannot build any civilization without innovations, inventions, plans, financial resources, labor saving devices, materials and muscle.

      This book documents a number of the inventions, patents and labor saving devices conceived by Black Inventors. Africans, before the period of their enslavement, developed: agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth, and weapons, among many other inventions. Though many black people were brought to Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the United States in chains and under the yoke of slavery, it is relatively unknown that thousands of them engineered labor saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide.

        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, from the very beginning of their involvement in the invention and patenting process, have had an important and earth shattering impact on the world. This book highlights the work of early Black inventors from   almost all fifty states in the U.S. It gives details about the first Black inventor who obtained a patent in both the Caribbean and the United States. In the United States, to date, sixteen African American men have been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Two of these inventors, Jan E, Matzeliger, (Suriname) and Elijah McCoy, (Colchester, Canada) were born outside the United States.  Recently, Dr. Patricia Bath was nominated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame; yet, an African American woman  has not been inducted into this prestigious organization.  Mr. Holmes documents the creativity of Black women inventors from Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, and provides readers with a comprehensive view of the ground-breaking achievements of Black inventors – both male and female.

      This is one of the first books that address the diversity of Black inventors and their inventions from a global perspective. The material available in this book is an introduction to the world of Black inventors. It gives the reader, researcher, librarian, student and teacher the materials needed to effectively understand that the Black inventor is not only a national phenomenon, but also a global giant.

        Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success identifies Black inventors from five continents, over seventy countries, including almost all fifty states in the United States. This book cites a number of Black inventors from 1769 - 2007.  It is one of the most comprehensive books on Black Inventors since Henry E. Baker's research on Black inventors in the early 20th century. We are now listed with www.copac.ac.uk, 
www.nielsen.bookdata.co.uk,  www.sabinet.co.za, www.worldcat.org.

        This publication is a part of the library collection of over 300 libraries including libraries in forty states in the United States and 16 countries worldwide including:

Australia,
Bahamas,
Barbados,
Belize,
Bermuda,
British Virgin Islands,
Canada,
China,
Germany,
Guyana,
Jamaica,
Scotland,
South Africa,
Trinidad and Tobago,
United Kingdom,
United States including the U.S. Virgin Islands

You can find this book in:

- 10 out of 20 public libraries in Canada's largest cities.
- 25 out of 50 top college libraries in Canada and the United States.
- 19 out of 50 top public libraries in the United States.
-   4 out of 10 of the world's largest libraries.

- For a partial listing of public libraries, organizations, schools, and universities that have added this ground breaking book to their collection visit the next page.

        Mr. Holmes is available for lectures and book signings. The book sells for $15.00 US dollars (plus shipping & handling) and we can ship your orders both domestic and international. If your order requires a purchase order number or you need for our company to generate an invoice, please email your requests to: kcholmes50@gmail.com or info@globalblackinventor.com or fax to 718-284-8965.  You can place your orders directly through our website. For large or bulk orders please contact us directly via this website, email, telephone or fax. Our publication can be purchased through a number of distributors and booksellers globally.

          The ISBN number: 978-0-9799573-0-7  or  097-9957303 /  OCLC number: 234711874 

Afrikan World Books (USA), Amazon.com (in the following: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States), Ambassador Books Media III (USA), BarnesandNoble.com, BIS Publications (United Kingdom), The Book House (USA), Brodart, Inc. (USA), Caxton Bookshops (South Africa), Clarke's Bookshop (South Africa), Coutts Information Services (USA), Dawson Books (United Kingdom), DiversityStore.com (USA), Emery Pratt (USA), Midwest Library Services (USA), S & B Books USA, Whitehots, Inc. (Canada), YPB Library Services (USA). For more information feel free to contact us at telephone number: 646-610-1485.

    To all of our supporters, we would like to take this time to thank everyone for their interest, support and patience in this monumental project.

     Mr. Holmes specializes in research on black and indigenous inventors, and he is available for lectures and book signings.  Are you looking for information about Black inventors ? You can contact our company by telephone, fax, email or filling out the contact information below.