[9] Ibid., 288.
[10] "Account of the Empire of Morocco," 292.
[11] Ibid., 295.
[12] "Le Grand Desert," 228.
[13] Ibid., 251.
[14] "Tunesia and the Modern Barbary Pirates," 65.
The Negro in the Field of Invention
There is no branch of technical and scientific industry in our country that is at all comparable in scope and results with the business of perfecting inventions. These constitute the basis on which nearly all our great manufacturing enterprises are conducted, both as to the machinery employed and the articles produced. So vast is the field covered by inventors, and so industriously do they apply their talent to it that patents for new and useful inventions are now being granted them by our government at the rate of more than one hundred a day for every day that the office is open for business. And when one considers the enormous part played by American inventors in the economic, industrial and financial development of our country, it becomes a matter of importance to ascertain what share in this great work is done by the American Negro.