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Thomas Jennings

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Audience/Grade: 8th Grade - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering
History of Science and Technology
Technology and Society
Special Topic(s): Technology and Society
Black and African American Scientists and Engineers
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:

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Author(s): The Black Inventor Online Museum
Description: "Thomas Jennings stands in history as a noteworthy figure for being the first Black person to ever receive a patent, but his life should serve as an example of what was, and what could have been, for Black people in the earliest years of the United States."
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Use of Resource: biography on the African American inventor
Difficulty: Easy
Interactivity Level: Very Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: 2008
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/thomasjennings.html
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS