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Elijah McCoy, Lewis Latimer and Granville Woods: African-American Inventors of the 19th Century — Part 2 — The Inventions — Granville T. Woods

Written on May 24, 2010. Written by Glenn Vance.

The rock star of African-American inven­tors of the 19th cen­tury, Woods enjoy great fame dur­ing his life­time. “The most noted Negro inven­tor of the coun­try today is Granville T. Woods, of New York, hav­ing patented more than forty devices, relat­ing to the con­trol of elec­tric­ity. One was sold to Bell Tele­phone for $10,000.”7 After working […]

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Elijah McCoy, Lewis Latimer and Granville Woods: African-American Inventors of the 19th Century — Part 2 — The Inventions — Elijah McCoy

Written on May 19, 2010. Written by Glenn Vance.

The three inven­tors of focus didn’t have many advan­tages from life in gen­eral. Cer­tainly not what you would expect from men who went on to be ground­break­ing inven­tors. Two were the chil­dren of escaped slaves, the third of mixed race at a time when this was entirely socially unac­cept­able. How­ever, despite what their par­ents were […]

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Elijah McCoy, Lewis Latimer and Granville Woods: African-American Inventors of the 19th Century — Part 1 — Introduction

Written on May 15, 2010. Written by Glenn Vance.

I fin­ished the paper. Turned out to be good (thanks to Kim’s edit­ing) and my pre­sen­ta­tion went over pretty well and I only stopped once to look down at my notes. After cram­ming to fin­ish this I felt like I’d stud­ied for an exam I knew it so well. You’ll notice super­scripts through­out the posts. Those […]

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Getting Nervous About “Lost”, Too, But Not Too Nervous

Written on May 13, 2010. Written by Glenn Vance.

If you’ve read this blog for any period of time you know that I’ve loved, and then hated, and then loved “Lost”. It started out with a (lit­eral) bang and then went down­hill for awhile and then came back up and then kinda mud­dled around and then really hit its stride a sea­son or two […]

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Getting a Little Nervous About Iron Man 2.…

Written on May 6, 2010. Written by Glenn Vance.

I freak­ing loved Iron Man. Looooved it. Loved it so much I saw it twice and now own it on Blu-Ray and watch it about once a month. It’s a great film, and John Favreau did a great job of helm­ing a pos­si­bly career-sinking film. It’s cool and smart and con­fi­dent and funny and smart […]

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