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    Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success

Brooklyn, NY. Friday, August 27th - 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 Australia, Barbados, Canada, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, just to name a few. Without innovations, inventions, plans, financial resorces, labor saving devices, materials and muscle, no civilization can exist and flourish.

      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 millions of 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 Africans and their descendents developed numerous labor saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide.

        The focus of this book is to introduce readers to the facts, that inventions created 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, although in the past the focus has been on American and European inventors. Today, 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 United States. 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; but, an African American woman  has not yet been nducted 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 materials they 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. Citing a number of black inventors from 1769 - 2007, this book is one of the most comprehensive works on black Inventors since Henry E. Baker's research on Black inventors in the early 20th century. 

      We are now listed with the following library systems:  www.collectionscanada.ca, www.copac.ac.uk, www.loc.gov, www.nla.gov.au,  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-one states in the United States and nineteen countries worldwide including:

Australia,
Bahamas,
Barbados,
Belize,
Bermuda,
British Virgin Islands,
Canada,
China,
Fiji,
Germany,
Guinea,
Guyana,
Jamaica,
Kenya (Pending),
Netherlands,
Nigeria (Pending),
Scotland,
South Africa,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Uganda (Pending),
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.
-   5 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.

        Our publication was selected by the NCTE to be a part of the 2011 African American Read-In. 

        This book was cited by the Arundel County Public School Science committee with  the following comment on the evaluation form:  “could be used as real world examples in class or for student research.”

         You can find our publication in the following libraries, research centers and other locations (*) :
         Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana,
         Belize National Service & Information, Belize, Central America,
         Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Canada,
         Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts,
         The British Library, London, United Kingdom,
         Canada Intellectual Property Organization, Library and Knowledge Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
         Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Ottawa, Canada,
         CARICOM - Documentation Centre, Georgetown, Guyana,
         Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, 
           Department of Archives, Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies,
         Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, St. Croix,
         Virgin Islands,
         Department of Science and Technology in South Africa. Pretoria, South Africa,
         Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan,
         Greater Harrisburg Area Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
         Hawaii Library State Public System, Honolulu, Hawaii,
         Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China,
         Library and Archives, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
         Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia,
         Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California,
         Mississippi Library Commision, Jackson, Mississippi,  
         Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, District of Columbia,
           The National Institute of Higher Education, Research,  Science & Technology, Trinidad & Tobago,
         West Indies,
         The National Library of Australia, Camberra, Australia,
         The National Library of Bermuda, Hamilton, Bermuda,
         National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad & Tobago,Port of Spain,Trinidad & Tobago
         The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom,
         The National Library of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa,
         National Library of Guinea - Bibliotheque Nationale de Guinea, Conkary, Guinea,
         National Science Teachers Association, Arlington, Virginia,
         Ohioana Library Association, Columbus, Ohio,
         Oklahoma Department Libraries, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
         Schomburg Center for Reseach in Black Culture, New York, New York,
         Scientific Research Council, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies,
         Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee,
         Réseau des bibliothèques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
         The State Library of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
         The State Library of New York, Albany, New York,
         The State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina,
         University of the South Pacific Library, Suva, Fiji,
         University of Groningen Library, Groningen, Netherlands,
         University of West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, Barbados
         
         * for a complete listing visit our About Us page.

        Mr Holmes has done book signings and lectures in Barbados,  California, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ontario (Canada) and Washington, DC. He has appeared on "BBC-Gloucestershire Caribbean Connection", BlogTalkRadio "Harold Rush: Interview: Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success", "CBC, Mornin Barbados", "WBAI-FM, the GBE", "WOLO-AM, Global with Nati",  and  "WRSU-FM, The Power of Gospel".
  
         The author is available for lectures and book signings. Please call 646-610-1485 or email info@globalblackinventor.com to schedule an book signing or lecture.

        The book sells for $15.00 US dollars (plus shipping & handling) and we can ship your orders both domestic and international. We can now accept UNESCO Coupons as payment for book orders, please send a fax or email for more infomation.

        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 no's: 978-0-9799573-0-7 / 097-9957303 /  LOC no:2010483204  OCLC no: 234711874

Our company attended the Book Expo America and the National Conference American Library Association and we are now a member of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

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