Directory of Banneker, Benjamin Resources

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This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American farmer and self-taught mathematician Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806). Born the son of a freed slave, Banneker earned the title "first African-American inventor" by designing things such as an irrigation system that produced wheat and kept U.S. troops from starving during the Revolutionary War. Banneker was also one of the designers of the U.S. capital.

Resources in This Category

• About.com: Benjamin Banneker

  http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/Banneker.htm
  Includes a short biography and tells about Benjamin Banneker writing the first Farmers' Almanac.

• Benjamin Banneker

  https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/banneker.html
  Includes a short biography, sketch, and excerpts from letters. Inventor, mathematician and astronomer.

• Fact Monster: Benjamin Banneker

  http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775682.html
  Short biography for the mathematician, astronomer and surveyor.

• Kulture Kidz: Benjamin Banneker

  http://thekulturekidz.com/benjamin-banneker/
  Short biography and sketch.

• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora: Benjamin Banneker

  http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html
  Features a detailed biography as well as excerpts from a letter Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson.

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