More Facts About Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin had written a letter to Thomas Jefferson. I have found a website of the two note that were sent back and fourth. http://www.africawithin.com/bios/ben_banneker.htm. Also Banneker had written a Almanac.Banneker is best known for his six annual Farmers Almanac published between 1792 and 1797. In his free time, Banneker began compiling the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris. The almanacs included information on medicines and medical treatment, and listed tides, astronomical information, and eclipses, all calculated by Banneker himself.

Did You Know

Benjamin Banneker had constructed the city of Washington D.C. Well actually he reconstructed it. Pierre-Charles L'Enfant had started constructing it. Benjamin had started reconstructing it after Pierre-Charles L'Enfant ran off with his plans. But now a biographer Silvio Bedini argues that the story cannot be true, since Banneker left the project long before L'Enfant did. So According to Arnebeck, "There is no evidence that Banneker contributed anything to the design of the city."

Benjamin's Quote

These are some Quotes that Benjamin Banneker said.

"Ah, Why will men forget that they are brethren?" (Banneker in "The First African American Inventor 2)

"I am of the African race, and in the color which is natural to them of the deepest eye, and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler. (Banneker in "Letter to Thomas Jefferson" 1)

"The color of the skin is in no way connected with the strength of the mind or intellectual powers" (Banneker in "Preface to Almanac" 2)

"Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrupts bad manners. (Banneker in "Banneker's Almanac" 1)

Poems About Benjamin Banneker

I have found some websites that have poems about Benjamin Banneker
http://www.bannekermemorial.org/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171454#atuid-4a6cffcd3cd59163
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171455#atuid-4a6cffcd3cd59163

Mathematician

Did you know that Benjamin Banneker was a Mathematician? Well Banneker's education began early on. Banneker and his siblings were taught to read by their grandmother, Molly, who used the Bible as a lesson book. When Banneker was twelve, a Quaker named Peter Heinrich moved next to the Banneker farm. He established a school for boys, which Banneker attended. He was really good in mathematics, and even progressed beyond the ability of his teacher.

Who Influenced Him...

Banneker had met a man named Josef Levi who showed him a pocket watch. Banneker was so fascinated that Levi gave him the watch. He studied how it worked , drew a picture of it, and made the mathematical calculations for the parts. He worked on building the clock for two years. In 1753, he finally completed it. It was made of wood and it's gears were carved by hand. This was the first clock built in the United States. For more than 40 years, the clock struck every hour. It apparently stopped working the day that he died.

How He Affected Our lives....

This is a picture of his clock that he made. As you can see it has numbers on it from 1 through 12!!

Now that he was invented the wooden clock we have now contributed on it and now we have digital clocks, wall clocks and watches!!! He affected our society by creating an instrument that shows us what time it is right now.It also shows the amount of time that has passed and the amount of time to come!!