Benjamin banneker

Benjamin Banneker was born 1731and there were few free blacks in Baltimore country Maryland .He quickly showed an interest in mathematics and in mechanical things. The main work that he did was that he predict a whole lot of things a solar eclipse. He decided to work on an almmac.banneker had to establish the position of the sun moon and planets each year. Then he could make allocutions so he has been looking into mathematics at the age of 22.My reaction to this is that Benjamin bannered things such as the solar eclipse. Also he kept his main focus on his mathematics and also was a black young man who work hard to get where he was and also was a very smart and Intelligent person why because he kept his man on the his work. And he also didn’t let anything stop him from doing that. As reported in the Georgetown Weekly Ledger March 12, 1791, when Banneker was 60, he was appointed, by President George Washington, to a three man team of surveyors headed by Major Andrew Ellicott, Joseph's cousin, to survey the future District of Columbia. Banneker, the paper said, was "an Ethiopian whose abilities as surveyor and astronomer already prove that Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson's concluding that that race of men were void of mental endowment was without foundation. Banneker became fascinated with the patent watch of a friend, Josef Levi. Levi gave Benjamin the watch and he took it apart to 'study its workings." Banneker then carved similar watch pieces out of wood to make, in1752, a wooden clock. Due to its precision (it struck every hour, on the hour, and continued to do so nearly forty years.