TY - BOOK ID - 30662537 TI - A hammer in their hands AU - Pursell, Carroll W AU - Lemelson Center. PY - 2005 SN - 128209694X 9786612096945 0262281953 1423796578 0262162253 9780262162258 9780262281959 6612096942 9781423796572 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Technology KW - African Americans KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Black history KW - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General KW - SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology KW - African Americans history KW - history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30662537 AB - "A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans."--Jacket. ER -