JohnnyYou » 26 Dec 2025, 5:13 pm » wrote: ↑
At least he has the right skin color and would have been allowed to read books.
Why did the scientists flee Nazi Germany and come here and invent everything? How many American patents are/were made by german immigrants?
Start a thread.
This thread is about exposing and ridiculing your wishful thinking based belief system [in case you are so stupid you need to have this explained to you]
https://www.blackinventionmyths.com/Clock or Watch (First in America)
Benjamin Banneker built the first American timepiece in 1753?
No!
Abel Cottey, a Quaker clockmaker from Philadelphia, built a clock that is dated 1709 (source: Six Quaker Clockmakers, by Edward C. Chandlee; Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943). Banneker biographer Silvio Bedini further refutes the myth:
Several watch and clockmakers were already established in the colony [Maryland] prior to the time that Banneker made the clock. In Annapolis alone there were at least four such craftsmen prior to 1750. Among these may be mentioned John Batterson, a watchmaker who moved to Annapolis in 1723; James Newberry, a watch and clockmaker who advertised in the Maryland Gazette on July 20, 1748; John Powell, a watch and clockmaker believed to have been indentured and to have been working in 1745; and Powell's master, William Roberts.Silvio Bedini, The Life of Benjamin Banneker (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1999)