AuthorWadsworth, Ginger
TitleBenjamin Banneker [electronic resource] : pioneering scientist / by Ginger Wadsworth ; illustrations by Craig Orback
Imprint Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2003
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Descript 47 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm

SUMMARY

Introduces Benjamin Banneker, a free black man of the eighteenth century who loved to learn and used his knowledge and observations to build a wooden clock, write an almanac, and help survey the streets of Washington, D.C


SUBJECT

  1. Banneker
  2. Benjamin
  3. 1731-1806 -- Juvenile literature
  4. Astronomers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
  5. African American scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
  6. Banneker
  7. Benjamin
  8. 1731-1806
  9. Astronomers
  10. African Americans -- Biography
  11. Electronic books.