KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Benjamin Banneker: Invented America’s First Clock-Famous Black Inventors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American man living in a slave state in the eighteenth century, never knew the weight of iron shackles or the crack of an overseer’s whip. A native of Baltimore County, Maryland, his experience diverged from those of most African Americans living in the early United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -When he was 22 years of age Banneker showed his abilities when he made a clock from wood using a pocket watch he had borrowed as a model. The clock struck the hours and continued in good working order for the rest of Banneker’s life.