January 24, 2008

Update on Sampson

Exciting news!! Matt came home from school today with a few copied pages from a book about African-American inventors that had a very short chapter on Henry Sampson. AND, it is written for elementary age students -- explanations of inventions included. (One of the other children is also researching Sampson and located this text.)

Hurray! So, although we don't have a lot of extra info about any other aspects of his life, at least we don't have to read through any more patents to understand the applications of his inventions or go looking for abstracts in old periodicals.

Nice little present, those three copied pages.