American inventors

African Slavery in America essay, he speaks on slavery in America. Paine discusses that African Americans were peaceful and the Americans came to enslave them. The Americans were “Christians”, and yet were doing inhumane things to the innocent slaves. The Americans had no permission to catch and enslave people who never injured them. Thomas Paine, born February 9th 1737 was an American journalist and inventor. Paine authored influential writings such as African Slavery in America and Common…

Are you to willing wake up early every morning to sit outside for hours and hours in the heat separating cotton seeds from cotton fibers? Well slaves didn’t have a choice until a us-born inventor named Eli Whitney came up with the idea of the cotton gin. For those who may not know, the cotton gin is a machine, invented on April in 1793, that separated cotton easier and faster than by doing it by hand. As a side note, Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765 and died…

in a time when electricity had become the new sensation and a newly independent nation takes its rightful place as the new world power. Benjamin Franklin was responsible for spearheading the growing priorities, loyalties, and beliefs of the American colonist. In a time where the religious and…

fortune, deadly family quarrels, caught business related conversation, the insane of voyaging actors, the far off thunder of the common war, and two American ousts. Huck the vagrant and Jim the runaway slave, coasting down the hugeness of the immense Mississippi. Huck's is an excursion that will change both characters. At last, Huck, similar to his inventor, breaks free from common restraint, from the individuals who might assimilate him.Twain was one of those essayists, of whom there are not a…

George W. Veditz became a smooth signer because he was one of the first to film American Sign Language. George W. Veditz had strong opinions about preserving sign language. During the years he was president, he worked with Oscar Regensburg, who was the first chairman of NAD’s motion picture fund committee to produce some of the earliest…

his story so disputed? Why was writing a demonic act to the Cherokee? But the most important question was why would a blacksmith make a writing system? As I researched the answer to the last question, I found out that Sequoyah enlisted in the American Military against the British, which seemed odd since he was crippled (Sequoyah meaning “pig’s foot”), and also part of a minority. While enlisted,…

Gordon Wood’s Radicalism of the American Revolution, there is a constant burning question that fails to be answered simply through reading. The title of the book itself is misleading in the commonly held historical sense in that the American Revolution lasted long past the Battle of Yorktown, Treaty of Paris or the ratification of the Constitution. Wood’s study instead extends into the 19th century in an effort to prove his largest point—that the fruits of the American Revolution were enjoyed…

John Stone Stone John Stone Stone, engineer and inventor, was born in Dover, Virginia on September 24, 1869. He spent his first several years of life in Egypt and in the Mediterranean, because of his father’s career. Charles P. Stone, father of John, Chief of Staff to the Khedive of Egypt spent over 12 years in Egypt building up an Egyptian army in the west. In late 1882, the British took over Egypt, and Stone resigned his position and returned to the United States where he was hired as chief…

civil war than in both world wars combined! In the battle of Gettysburg alone the confederate side lost 25,000 men and the union lost 23,000 men that’s 48,000 men in just one battle.There are many reasons why the civil was the most deadliest war in american history one reason was because both sides believed in different things they both fought for different reasons.This made family’s split apart it made brother against brother father against son. One other reason is because of the advanced…

George W. Carver was an African-American Scientist, Inventor, Chemist, and Botanist. Although his exact birthdate is unknown, historian guess that he was born in Diamond,Missouri as a slave some time in the Civil war era, most likely in 1864. George is best known for his inventions using the peanut and other plants.He was also a teacher at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute( now called Tuskegee University). George was born into slavery and his birth was said to be around 1861 near…