African-American Inventors III

The author describes the life and work of two female and three male African American Inventors and Scientists, including the contributions of agriculturalist George Washington Carver and Nigerian-born computer scientist Philip Emeagwali. The search engines contain a thousand supplementary references to Carver or Emeagwali. The stories are filled with the themes of perseverance and overcoming obstacles. The inventions described include massively parallel supercomputers, petroleum reservoir simulation and oil recovery, uses of peanut, lasers for eye surgery, and a new way to make rocket fuel. Excerpts read: "Emeagwali programmed the Connection Machine to make 3.1 billion calculations per second.... This speed was a new world record in 1989.... The record breaking speed of Emeagwali's invention helped people understand the value of parallel computing."The photographs of the inventors and the illustrations of their inventions make this a useful book for K-12 school assignments on inventors. This book is a must for math, science and black history related school assignments.