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Lucean Arthur Headen - The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur (Hardcover)
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Lucean Arthur Headen - The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur (Hardcover)
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Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957)
grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a
wheelwright, and great-uncle, a toolmaker, he dreamed as a child of
becoming an inventor. His ambitions suffered the menace of Jim Crow
and the reality of a new inventive landscape in which investment
was shifting from lone inventors to the new "industrial
scientists." But determined and ambitious, Headen left the South,
and after toiling for a decade as a Pullman porter, risked
everything to pursue his dream. He eventually earned eleven
patents, most for innovative engine designs and anti-icing methods
for aircraft. An equally capable entrepreneur and sportsman, Headen
learned to fly in 1911, manufactured his own "Pace Setter" and
"Headen Special" cars in the early 1920s, and founded the first
national black auto racing association in 1924, all establishing
him as an important authority on transportation technologies among
African Americans. Emigrating to England in 1931, Headen also
proved a successful manufacturer, operating engineering firms in
Surrey that distributed his motor and other products worldwide for
twenty-five years. Though Headen left few personal records, Jill D.
Snider recreates the life of this extraordinary man through
historical detective work in newspapers, business and trade
publications, genealogical databases, and scholarly works. Mapping
the social networks his family built within the Presbyterian church
and other organizations (networks on which Headen often relied),
she also reveals the legacy of Carthage's, and the South's, black
artisans. Their story shows us that, despite our worship of
personal triumph, success is often a communal as well as an
individual achievement.
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