During this book report presentation I'm doing, you'll
hear about one of the greatest men and about one of the greatest scientist ever
in the history of the world George Washington Carver (Also Known As "The
Peanut Scientist"). Carver did a lot of experiments that were good and had
a lot of great ideas in his long fulfilling life. This great African American
Scientist of peanuts and sweet potatoes, as well as for saving the town cotton
plants. Carver was born into slavery, because his mother Mary was a slave.
Carver was born in 1864, and was almost kidnapped by raiders. The raiders took
Mary and left Carver on the side of the rode. George and his brother James was
taken in by their loving masters Moses an Susan Carver. At the age of twelve the
young man left and went of to go to school.
Carver became very educated and was offered a job as a
science professor at Tuskegee College in Alabama. The college didn't have a lab
so the kids would bring in stuff from Mother Nature or he would teach them from
the school farm. Carver found out the cotton plants was small and weak. So,
Carver and his class did an experiment and planted sweet potatoes to give the
soil a rest. The following year he decided that they would plant cowpeas and so
they did. The third year he made a decision to plant cotton again and they did.
From this experiment came the cotton crop grew bigger and stronger than ever
before. This made him one of the first scientists ever to teach crop rotation.
Then after all this hard work an dedication by Carver and his students came a
little bunch of bugs that at cotton called a boll weevil came and started to eat
the cotton crops. These bugs came to America in the early l900's from Mexico;
they didn't know what to do, so Carver tells them to plant goobers (the old
fashion way for saying peanuts). Carver of course being a scientist knew that
the little creatures didn't like goobers/peanuts. This plan saved the cotton
crops and saved the hard work and sweat that the student of Tuskegee had put
into the work over the last three years. As well as for the great young
scientist hard work and thoughts of this research on the cotton crops a crop
rotation. This only the beginning of the great experiments and successful
experiments that this world class scientist had during his remarkable life.
The great scientist researched and failed or didn't
feel right about a lot of different experiments until Carver grew on one
particular plant the peanut, which made him the most famous during his most
incredible carrier. He first came up with the idea to make a nutritional product
called peanut milk. He could use this for cooking and baking. This great idea
had a great setback as it was found out that two years ago in 1917 an Englishman
had already thought of this idea Carver locked himself in his workshop as he
asked god why was the peanut made. He didn't come out until he thought he had an
answer. His students were very worried about the professor until he f finally
came out. He told the students that god the "Great Creator" had showed
him how to take apart the peanut chemically and put all the parts of the peanut
together in new and different products. Then Carver showed them how he had taken
the different products in the peanut such as oils, sugars, starches and other
things to make a dozen new products. He made things such as oil, rubbing oil,
milk, cheese, and margarine. These products may have been good but he had to
first proof it to the local businessmen. Carver being the smart man he is
invited them over for lunch at Tuskegee. He made soup, bread, chicken, loaf,
vegetables, ice cream, and cookies all made of peanut butter. After they ate and
told him how wonderful the food was that all the food was made out of peanut
butter. Carver should the farmers of his great success with the peanuts and was
a so good in his presentations that he was elected to go before Congress at the
upcoming hearings on protective tariffs. The people of Congress laughed and
thought that this was a waist of time, and told him he has ten minutes to
convince them to raise tariffs on peanuts. They became so interested that they
gave him more than ten minutes and was convinced to raise imported tariffs on
peanuts at the end of Carver's speech and presentation. This just one example of
how his research and development on goobers had rubbed off on all of us.
Carver had put a lot of research in another one of the
crops that was important to poor farmers by the name of sweet potato. This
product made a lot of useful things that was convenient and useful to the people
of America and also things to help the poor farmers make use of their sweet
potato crops. One thing he made was new kind of cotton. This cotton was study
and could be used to make other products such as paving blocks, paper to save
our trees, rugs, insulating boards, and many other products. He even made a book
that contains 118 different ways to make things with a sweet potato. Carver also
developed a variety of fertilizers and showed the farmers how to use them to
improve their crops.
In conclusion I've learned a lot more about America
and also about more about my fellow African American famous and loving people of
all kind now matter color or religion. This book report gave me the opportunity
to learn more about this great scientist who was devoted to his work and was a
caring man of all people no matter what they thought of him. This is a great
modest man who made a difference in all our lives in some way. This great
African American Scientist became well known as he made a number of useful
things out of peanuts and sweet potatoes, as well as for saving the town cotton
plants from the boll weevil. This is a restatement of what you have read about
during this book report.
George Washington Carver (January 1864 – January 5, 1943), was
an African American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor whose studies
and teaching revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States. His
exact birth day (and year) are unknown, yet it is known that it was some time
before slavery was abolished in Missouri in January, 1864.[1] To commemorate
his life and inventions, George Washington Carver Recognition Day is
celebrated on January 5, the anniversary of the day Carver died.
In the Reconstruction South, an agricultural monoculture of cotton depleted
the soil; and, in the early 20th century, the boll weevil destroyed much of
the cotton crop. Much of Carver's fame was based on his research and promotion
of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He wanted
poor farmers to grow alternative crops as both a source of their own food as
well as a source of other products to improve their quality of life. His most
popular bulletin contained 105 existing food recipes that used peanuts.
He also created or disseminated about 100 products made from peanuts that were
useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics,
gasoline, and nitroglycerin.
In addition to his work on agricultural extension education for purposes of
advocacy of sustainable agriculture and appreciation of plants and nature,
Carver's important accomplishments also included improvement of racial
relations, mentoring children, poetry, painting, and religion. He served as an
example of the importance of hard work, a positive attitude, and a good
education. His humility, humanitarianism, good nature, frugality, and lack of
economic materialism also have been admired widely.
One of his most important roles was in undermining, through the fame of his
achievements and many talents, the widespread stereotype of the time that the
black race was intellectually inferior to the white race. In 1941, Time
magazine dubbed him a "Black Leonardo", a reference to the white polymath
Leonardo da Vinci
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