Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

While most authors focus primarily on American and European inventors, Keith Holmes introduces inventions both past and present that Black people developed and patented globally and multiculturally. His research documents inventors of color from over seventy countries, including Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, St. Vincent, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States. Without inventions, innovations, financial resources, materials, muscle and labor saving devices, civilizations cannot exist and flourish. Holmes’s research has cited the first African-American, Henry E. Baker, a United States Naval attendee and Patent Examiner who documented hundreds of inventions by Black inventors.