American inventors

Gayl Jones’s novel, Corregidora uses the blues as a way to express feelings to the reader without explicitly stating them. The Blues started in 19th century North America. Its inventors were of African American origins all of whom were either slaves or ex-slaves. Perhaps this is why the blues has such strong emotions due to the fact that it stems from slavery a touchy topic for many. The blues often uses piano and various guitars to give a variety of melodies. However, in blues, it is the…

Garrett Augustus Morgan was an inventor. With only an elementary school education; he made a trail for future African-American inventors. He started having an eye for inventing at a young ages; that when Mr. Morgan knew he found his dream job. Mr. Morgan improved the sewing machine and, a hair straighten product. Garret Morgan was born on March 4, 1877 in Paris Kentucky. He was the seventh child out of a total of eleven children. Mr. Morgan was not totally in African American; he was actually…

late 1800s and the early 1900s. The author provides an account of experiences in the areas inhabited by the African American racial group together with the whites. Being a black woman, she gives her accounts of events in her own environment and vividly provides evidence of the occurrences. She gives an account of the racial discrimination that transpired during the period of Afro-American persecution. She narrates about the law of lynching that was imposed on the black people to control them and…

Every year during the month of February the nation celebrates Black History Month. Many Americans wonder why there is a Black History month. What makes African Americans distinctive from all other Americans. Black History month or National African American month originated from the Negro Week. The cofounders of this organization were Carter G. Woodson, George Cleveland Hall, W.B. Hartgrove, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps. Harvard graduate named Carter G. Woodson who promoted a…

Each contributed and created their own success as well-known authors, in spite of coming from low income family or no money at all. Both of the men became role models to the people, one being a very important leader to the African Americans and the other being an inspiration to their civic contribution. Both Douglass and Franklin worked in newspaper article organizations. They produced influential work which is now taught throughout the world influencing people to never give up and…

The beginning of sound recording was an extranomical feet, shaking the ground of modern technology at the time, but now it has developed so rapidly to support our need of human connection that you might be surprised how similar we are to those who first invented it. The process of refining and marketing the phonograph from the texts “The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph” and “The Incredible Talking Machine” by Randall Stross is similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight in Mark…

Kentucky spans hundreds of years. Many famous people are from Louisville; actors, inventors, and a boxing legend. Louisville is also known for the Kentucky Derby at the Churchill Downs. During the 1770’s settlers moved into the Kentucky region area starting from scratch they built a settlement, forts, and farm lands on the Ohio River. One of the well-known residents was inventor Thomas Edison, he was a prolific inventor, holding over a thousand US patents in his name. The impact of his…

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He is regarded as a significant figure in American history due to his lifelong focus as an advocate of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements He was a social activist who inspired the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. Garvey established the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known…

Segregation of the Masses The invention of the phonograph segregated American society. The phonograph, later known as the gramophone or record player, was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison as the Dereham and Fakenham Times reports in the “History of the Gramophone”. The phonograph created personal choices within music which could be heard within the convenience of homes for the first time. Bringing the art of the elite to the masses and the art of the margins to the center according to Alex Ross…

People started to see that manual labour was hard and need a lot of people which needed to be paid in or for the workers to stay and crop or create the product. Once the inventors start to create machines that could speed up the work and would require fewer people, owners knew that it would be better to get multiple and have people running them. This increased the number of jobs that would help the economy of the country and…