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03286aam a2200457 i 4500 001 5577498C74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 191125s2020 ncua b s001 0beng 010 $a 2019054570 020 $a 1469654350 020 $a 9781469654355 035 $a (OCoLC)1119467696 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d PNX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a TL140.H425 $b S65 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Snider, Jill D. $e author. 245 10 $a Lucean Arthur Headen : $b the making of a Black inventor and entrepreneur / $c Jill D. Snider. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiv, 310 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Headen, L. A. 650 0 $a African American inventors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American automobile industry workers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American automobile industry workers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $z United States $x History $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 7 $a African American automobile industry workers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799034 650 7 $a African American inventors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799205 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015033.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505014803.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5577498C74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search