The entrepreneurial spirit of African American inventors [electronic resource] / Patricia Carter Sluby.
2011
T21 .S58 2011eb
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The entrepreneurial spirit of African American inventors [electronic resource] / Patricia Carter Sluby.
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9780313363368 (electronic bk.)
9780313363351
9780313363351
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2011.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 250 p.) : ill.
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T21 .S58 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.6/42208996073
Summary
This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race. After patenting over 40 innovations in the research chemistry field while working at the Glidden Company, Dr. Percy Lavon Julian decided to establish his own company, Julian Laboratories, Incorporated in Chicago during the turbulent, racist climate of the 1950s. Over his lifetime, Julian received more than 130 chemical patents. Julian is just one of many, mostly unknown, African American inventors and entrepreneurs.
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Table of Contents
Setting the stage: early inventive spirit
Self-help, a beginning: business in the making
Following their passion, in the marketplace
Commercialized concepts: capital and enterprises of today
Roster of African American patentees: utility and design grants from 1821.
Self-help, a beginning: business in the making
Following their passion, in the marketplace
Commercialized concepts: capital and enterprises of today
Roster of African American patentees: utility and design grants from 1821.