20th Black Engineer of the Year Awards Video

It started 20 years ago with the realization that there was an urgent need for recognition...People knew of Thomas Edison, but not Howard Latimer, who actually held the patent for the carbon filaments that made Edison's light bulbs burn so brightly and helped Alexander Bell's telephones work over distances. They knew of the race to the moon, but not of Katherine Johnson, the Black mathematician who sat in a room with a slide rule and paper, invented astronavigation, and was responsible for bringing the crippled Apollo 13 craft home. [ Visit Website ]