Follows five inventors: Elijah "the real" McCoy, machinery oiling equipment; Madame C.J. Walker, hair products for black women; Granville Woods, electrical signal system for trains; Garrett Morgan, gas masks and traffic signals; and Jan Matzeliger, shoe last machinery.
year: 1995, 2004
call number/section: 609, 920, 609.2, 608.77
subjects: african american inventors, juvenile literature, inventors, african americans, biography
Editions
Hudson, Wade
Scholastic (1995)
Presents the lives of five African-American inventors: Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Elijah McCoy, Granville T. Woods, Madam C.J. Walker, and Garrett A. Morgan.
Schools: 30
Hudson, Wade
Produced by Just Us Books, Inc. (2004)
Follows five inventors: Elijah "the real" McCoy, machinery oiling equipment; Madame C.J. Walker, hair products for black women; Granville Woods, electrical signal system for trains; Garrett Morgan, gas masks and traffic signals; and Jan Matzeliger, shoe last machinery.
Schools: 1
Hudson, Wade
A book of inventors with a short story of what they did to improve our lives.
Schools: 4