Remembering Benjamin Banneker who died on this day When Benjamin Banneker died on this date 213 years ago, the first photograph was still 20 years away … See: Bedini, The Life of Benjamin Banneker, 104-107.

He built a striking clock entirely from wood, published a Farmers' Almanac… An ephemeris is a listing or table of the positions of celestial objects and where they appear in the sky at given times during a year. Pemberton and Joseph Townsend, president of the Maryland Abolitionist Society, collaborated the following year to publish Banneker’s first almanac. He was bom in 1731 to the daughter of Molly Walsh, a former indentured servant in her native England. Banneker was a successful almanac-maker and self-taught student of mathematics and astronomy Benjamin Banneker as portrayed on a stamp released in … Benjamin Banneker was a self-educated scientist, astronomer, inventor, writer, and antislavery publicist. Benjamin Banneker was an African American intellectual who constructed a wooden clock; predicted the solar eclipse of 1789; was an almanac author, a rare achievement for his time; and possessed advanced knowledge of astronomy and mathematics. The Almanac can included an ephemeris, plus other useful information for sailors and farmers. Benjamin Banneker was one of Ameri¬ ca’s first and finest scientists, as well as one of Thomas Jefferson’s great influences. Banneker went on to compile an ephemeris, which became the Benjamin Banneker Almanac. Here are 10 interesting facts about the life and accomplishments of this famous American icon.

Both mother and daughter purchased slaves in Maryland who later became their husbands.