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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

He made the 1st clock in the USA................redrew the street map of Wash DC...............from scratch...............they put DC's corner stone at Jones point in Alexandria b/c of him..........with his knowledge of astronomy and math.............he calculated where it should be put..............

Benjamin Banneker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

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Benjamin Banneker

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806). Without Benjamin Banneker, our nation's capital would not exist as we know it. After a year of work, the Frenchman hired by ...

Benjamin Banneker - Astronomer, Scientist - Biography.com

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Sep 25, 2015 - Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. A free black man who owned a farm near Baltimore, Banneker was largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics.

Africans in America/Part 2/Benjamin Banneker - PBS

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Benjamin Banneker -- author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner -- was descended from enslaved Africans, ...

His Story - Benjamin Banneker :: A Memorial to America's First Black ...

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In 1753, Benjamin Banneker engineered the first striking clock made entirely of indigenous American parts . This invention marked the advent of his rise to fame ...

Benjamin Banneker Biography - life, family, story, death, history ...

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From 1792 through 1797 Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician and amateur astronomer, calculated ephemerides (tables of the locations of ...

Benjamin Banneker | American scientist | Britannica.com

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Mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor, and writer, one of the first important African American intellectuals. Banneker, a freeman, was raised ...

Benjamin Banneker: Invented America's First Clock

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Read a biography of Benjamin Banneker, the famous African-American inventor who developed America's first fully functioning clock.

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) - Mathematics Department of SUNY ...

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Features a detailed biography as well as excerpts from a letter Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson.