Great Discoveries and Inventions by African-Americans: Fourth Edition

Great Discoveries and Inventions by African Americans is a collection of inventors, idealist, entrepreneurs and visionaries whose inventions revolutionized American industries and history.

In this compelling 4th volume, the facts are unobtrusively woven into a piece rich in the American heritage of ingenuity, determination and perseverance. Many have little knowledge of these brilliant inventors and their innovations as these inventions have rarely been accredited to African Americans. From innovations in safety, maritime technology to hotel services and household products, African American inventors have and continue to help shape our modern society and the culture of our everyday lives.

Featuring untold stories from brilliant inventors like Lewis Latimer, Lewis Temple and Garret Morgan to visionary entrepreneurs like F.M. Jones, Elijah McCoy and Joe Dudley, this easy-to-read handbook of some of America’s greatest thinkers and idealist is the perfect book for the young inventor, engineer or scientist in your family.

David Maynard Foy is an ordained African-American Minister, in Christian Ministry for over twenty years. He attended a church where the main educational thrust was a national agenda to eliminate racism. Its commission on racial and social justice was the instrument which attempts to change in racial attitudes. He is an active member of this commission. Before transferring from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Rev. Foy led a congregation into a new church facility in Kittrell, North Carolina, an historical community which once educated Blacks at Kittrell College, an institution of the African Methodist Episcopal Denomination. His educational background includes a degree in sociology from North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, a Master of Divinity degree at Shaw Divinity School, Raleigh, North Carolina, and continuing education courses toward a Master of Education degree at North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina. In 1980, on the campus of Saint Augustine’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina, he founded an affiliate chapter of the National Black Child Development Institute. His church involvement includes being an Assisting Minister at the Historic Saint Paul A.M.E. Church, founded in 1848 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and an affiliation with the Interfaith Alliance of Washington, DC. This national alliance was formed in 1994 to be a voice opposite the Religious Right Coalition. Foy believes that students of various institutions of learning, whether public, private or religious based; will benefit from a broader understanding of the multiple discoveries and inventions introduced to our society by African-Americans. Regardless of a student’s ethnicity, a deeper knowledge of so many facts which have been concealed is even vital to the future growth and collective understanding of all who live and function in the American way of life. This project was initiated, continued, and concluded with those beliefs in mind. Previous works by David Foy include Human Issues and Human Values, Council of Concerned African-American Christians, published in 1978.