Benjamin Banneker
Subtitle: pioneering scientist
By: by Ginger Wadsworth ; illustrations by Craig Orback
Contributors: Orback, Craig, ill
Series: On my own biography; On my own biography
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9781575057149
Subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION; Science & Nature; Science & Technology; African American scientists; Astronomers; Juvenile literature; Biography & Autobiography; Astronomy; African Americans; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.