The gospel of white fascism (Part 36)...What do the world's first "steam engine" and the Pythagorean theorem have in common?

I remember about a decade ago, I was watching the “Tavis Smiley” show on PBS, and one of his guests, a brotha, professed that a Black man invented “air conditioning”. Well, that was all the motivation I needed to start researching his claim. And sure enough, the brotha was right—it was Mr. Fred Mckinley Jones, a Black man, who not only created conditioned air, but built the device responsible for “talking” movies. Also, I remembered reading an article, in a magazine about movies, that said Black people made no contributions to  early cinema. Now, being that I consider myself a bit of a cinephile and a Black Nationalist, I intrinsically knew that was false, I just didn’t have any evidence to prove it. But now I do—and that’s just one of the perks of being an older Black Nationalist.

Anyways, I also recall being told by someone, that the first “steam engine” was created by a Black man—so, my curious mind got to researching again, only this time I ran into a bit of a roadblock. Now, when I googled, “who created the world’s first steam engine”, what immediately popped up were the names of 2 white men: Thomas Savery and Edward Somerset.

And wikipedia says, Thom Savery was an engineering inventor, born in 1650, who lived in an area called Modbury, in the United Kingdom. It also says he was born in a “manor house”, meaning, he came from a well-to-do family—supposedly. Anyway, wiki also said that Thom invented the first commercially used “steam-powered device”—that being a steam “pump” referred to as a steam engine.

That’s when I cocked an eyebrow, and thought to myself, a water “pump” was referred to as a steam engine? Hmmmm.

Now, when I read further, I saw that a guy named Thomas Newcomen’s advances on Thom Savery’s “steam engine”, had them working together cause Newcomen’s device fell under Savery’s steam engine “Patent”, that he acquired in 1698. I also saw that both these devices came from an earlier version of a “steam engine”, created by Frenchman Denis Papin in 1690.

But what struck me most, was a reference to an invention that predated all of these, called an “Aeolipile”, and this was also mentioned in the “wiki” article.

And when I researched this, it’s said that the secondary name for an Aeolipile, is a “Hero’s Engine”—and it’s described as being a “simple, bladeless” radial steam turbine, which spins when the central water container is heated (above). It’s also said that this device creates torque much like a tip jet or a rocket engine would, and in the 1^st century AD, a (white) guy named Hero of Alexandria, described how this device existed in “Roman-occupied Egypt”—thus, Hero of Alexandria, was given credit for the Aeolipile’s invention. *shaking head*

Now, beyond the craptastic fact that this white boi took credit for something that already existed, I immediately thought to myself—ain’t it funny how this story is leading me back to Africa—and back to Kemet/Egypt more specifically?

Hmmmm.

Then I thought to myself, okay—let me check out what’s up wit’ this other dude, Edward Somerset.

Turns out, Eddie Somerset was a 2^nd Marquee of Worcester, and was born on March 9^th, of 1602. He was royalty fam. And this guy also lived in the UK—London more specifically. Now, in 1655, Ed authored a book of textual descriptions (meaning written theories y’all—there were no diagrams in this book) of 100 separate inventions. This book was published in 1663, and it’s said that this tome included a device called a “water commanding engine”. Thereafter, some person said this was an obvious prototype for the steam engine. Then, in 1663, someone visited Ed’s workshop, where they saw and described the “hydraulic machine which the Marquee of Worcester had invented”. Mind you, no one saw him build it, or saw him oversee its construction—regardless, this is how Ed Somerset got credit for being one of the inventors of the first steam engine.

Again—Hmmmmm.

Now, when I saw that another name for the Aeolipile was the “Hero’s Engine” and it came out of Africa, I nodded my head and thought, it figures—here’s why…

The Kemetic deity “Heru” (left), was said to be the mythological son of Ausar and Aset (Greeks call Ausar and Aset, “Osiris” and “Isis” y’all). And the name Heru, is where we get the term “Hero” from. I’m sure if you’re a Black man or woman reading this, you’ve seen one or two t-shirts with the word “SuperHeru” on it—well, this is where that’s from. And for those who wanna’ know more about the original “superhero/Heru” story that every magical and mythological hero follows, read the allegory of Ausar, Aset, and Heru sometimes—then note how this story also contains the origins of another religious superhero, “Jesus Christ”.

Now, this “hero/Heru” reference coupled with the term, “Aeolipile”, made me immediately think of Alessandro Volta’s “pile battery”. Now, you may ask yourself, what the heck does Volta’s battery have to do with the African Aeolipile? Welp, it was discovered that Volta learned how to create his pile battery, by studying the African “Djed Pillar Battery”, based on the African “Djed Pillar” symbol (right). And I’ll show you how the Djed Pillar battery works in a masterful video curated by Professor A.C.E. (African Creation Energy), that I’ve kept in my archives for several years.

So, at this point you may be thinking, okay—so what’s all this gotta’ do with the “Pythagorean Theorem”?

Well, let me show ya’…

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who is said to have lived around 500 BC, and this man is credited with the mathematical equation known as the Pythagorean theorem. Now, this theorem expresses the relationship between the sides of a right triangle. And it basically shows where the square of the hypotenuse of the triangle (the hypotenuse is the longest side opposite the right angle y’all), is equal to the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides of the triangle (above left—and you can click on this pic to make it larger, fam). Mind you, this theorem is also called, the “47^th Problem of Euclid”—cause Euclid, who lived centuries after Pythagoras, was called the “father of geometry” behind his work to solve what’s known as the ratio “3:4:5 Pythagorean triple”.

But here’s what whitey won’t tell you…

The Babylonians (ancient indigenous Black Africans), not only knew, but wrote about this theorem centuries before Pythagoras was born. The ancient artifact known as “Plimpton 322” (left), illustrates these sample “triples” named after Pythagoras. Moreover, in the book “Stolen Legacy” by G.M. James, he states that Pythagoras traveled to Egypt (Kemet) and was taught geometry by the Egyptian priests, and they were the ones who showed him the proof of the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. Meaning, good ole Pythagoras didn’t discover this theorem, so his name shouldn’t be attached to it. Moreover, it’s said that the Kemetic priests also trained Pythagoras in musical theories, while he was in Kemet (Egypt).

Now, had I been taught this in school, maybe geometry wouldn’t have seemed so dull and useless.

And I’ve said all that to say this: once you start looking at or for, the origins of any art or science, you’ll find Black men and women at its nascent stages—no matter how hard whitey tries to cover it up.

And this is but 2 examples of that.

So, to the Black men and women reading this, understand there’s no invention, skill craft, or science, that didn’t start with you. And now that you’re armed with this info., you can go to the mirror, look at yourself, and say loudly and proudly…

I LOVE BEING BLACK!

And mean it.

Later…

MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

Here’s the video clip I was talking about, showing our ancient ancestor’s ingenuity behind building the “Djed Pillar battery”. Fam, there’s a lot of text to read in this clip, so if you wanna’ see a larger version of this vid, just click onto the video’s “title”, and that’ll take you to the live YouTube window where it’s currently playing. Enjoy.

P.P.S.

I’d be remiss, if I didn't show you how the “Djed Pillar” has also influenced american cinema—and if ya’ wanna’ know what I’m talkin’ about, you can find out HERE.

The legend of Dr. Phil Emeagwali and the creation of the internet...

Dr. Phil Emeagwali was born on August 23^rd, 1954 in Nigeria, Africa. He was the oldest of nine children and his father, who worked as a nurse's aide, earned a modest salary. Because of this, a young Dr. Phil was forced to leave school at the age of fourteen.

Even though Phil wasn't attending a formal school, his father saw his talent for mathematics. His father nurtured his abilities with spontaneous tests that forced Phil to come up with answers quickly, developing his abilities to think on his feet. Eventually, his father tasked him with answering a hundred math questions an hour; which to his father's delight, Phil succeeded at.

The young Dr. Phil journeyed to the public library, which became his alternate school. He spent his days consumed in books not only appropriate for his age, but collegiate-level tomes on subjects ranging from math, chemistry, physics and english. After this, he applied to take the 'General Certificate of Education' exam, which was a high school equivalency test given through the University of London. He passed it easily.

He applied to colleges in europe and the u.s., and at 17, received a scholarship from america's Oregan State University. He began his studies there in 1974 and received a Bachelor's Degree in mathematics in 1977. He then moved to washington d.c., and received a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering from George Washington University in 1981. He attained a second Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1986. During the same time, he attained yet another Master's Degree from George Washington University in Ocean, Coastal and Marine Engineering; and this he did while working as a civil engineer in Maryland and Wyoming. In 1987, Dr. Phil was accepted into the University of Michigan's Civil Engineering Doctoral program and received a doctoral fellowship.

Now, in the governmental and academic worlds, there were 20 'Grand Challenges' that confronted the areas of science and engineering. One of these was 'petroleum reservoir stimulation'. Oil companies faced the problem of locating oil reservoirs, without displacing the pockets of petroleum into unreachable areas by drilling too deeply or too often. The main means of locating these reservoirs was using 'supercomputers' which cost upwards of 30 million dollars. Dr. Phil having grown up in Nigeria, which boasts some of the world's biggest oil reserves, decided to take up this challenge in his doctoral dissertation.

Dr. Phil's exposure to nature in his native Nigeria, helped him see the problem from a different perspective. He remembered an old African proverb which stated, 'a large number of chickens, coordinated in strength and efficiency, could do a better job than a small number of oxen'. With this mind-set, instead of using one of the oil industry's conventional 'supercomputers', which housed 8 microprocessors, he'd find one that housed 64,000. The grand quandary was how to gain access to this many computers and how to connect them. His answer would lead him to a massive computer called the 'connection machine'.

This monstrous computer was made by a company called, 'Thinking Machines'. Problem was, it was so gargantuan, that no one thought it was able to be programmed. Dr. Phil found this machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He got approval to use it and went about the task of setting the parameters for his experiment. Dr. Phil was delighted when the computer, with his new programming, began processing 3.1 billion calculations a second. To top that off, the program was not only able to locate oil reservoirs, it was able to tell how much oil was in the reservoir, the oil's flow of speed and the direction the oil was traveling in. Furthermore, this technology provided the template for connecting computers around the world to provide a scalable network through which to provide and share information. Sound familiar? In other words, DR. PHIL'S PROGRAM, MARKED THE FIRST CREATION OF WHAT YOU'RE USING RIGHT NOW TO READ THIS POST...WHICH IS THE WORLD WIDE WEB, A.K.A., THE INTERNET!!

AND THAT'S RIGHT...DR. PHIL CREATED IT!!

If this weren't enough, along with his phenomenal achievement, Dr. Phil succeeded in building the world's fastest computer. And, in 1989 he won the Gordon-Bell Prize, which is like the Nobel Prize in computation, for this feat.

Dr. Phil has also lent his genius to weather forecasting in regards to greenhouse gases and global warming. His basing computer methods on nature, like the working swarms of chickens and bees in honeycombs, still gives him the revolutionary insight that has every meteorologist heeding his methods. Dr. Phil gave his nature-based technologies the name of 'hyperball' computing. And this will undoubtedly continue to create innovations for generations to come.

Now, I remember one day, I was in a subway looking at a billboard that told the tale of a Black man being responsible for the creation of the 'ice cream scooper'. I don't know if this is true or not, but white supremacists put that crap billboard up to keep the Black Diaspora mired in shame thinking this was the only kind of thing our feeble minds could come up with creating.

What that sign was designed to do, was reinforce the reasons why I should hate Black people; based on the fact that we're less intelligent than whites, who I and everyone of my peers, was taught created everything worth creating. And seconds after, this billboard was suppose to make me hate myself for being Black. That's the game of white supremacy.

So, if you're a Black man or woman reading this, anytime you're made to feel like the only thing your people contributed to this world was slavery and Martin Luther King, remember Dr. Phil Emeagwali; and be inspired to know that the only thing whitey created was the patent office...everything else they stole from us.

SO LET ME SAY SUTEKH! (BLACK POWER)TO THE GOD/NETCHER/NEGUS/NAGA DR. PHIL EMEAGWALI!!!

Ma'at Hotep!

MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

Family...just wanted to let you know, I have a job conference I need to attend that requires me to travel. So if over the course of the next weeks, my posts are less consistent, this is why.

Also, in keeping with the theme of great Black inventors, if you'd like to know about brotha Henry T. Sampson and his invention of the 'Gamma Electric Cell', you can read about it here.

The legend of Henry T. Sampson...(The Remix)

Henry T. Sampson was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 22, 1934.

His father Henry T. Sampson Sr., was a former executive dean of Jackson State University and has a library wing named after him at Jackson State U.

Henry Jr. graduated from Lanier High School in Jackson, MS and went on to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, before transferring to Purdue University in Indiana. He received a bachelor's degree in science at Purdue in 1956 and graduated with a Masters of Science in engineering from the University of California in 1961.

Sampson also received an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1965 and his PHD in 1967.

He is the first Black person to earn a PHD in Nuclear Engineering in the u.s.

And, on July 6th, 1971, Henry was awarded a patent for his invention, the 'Gamma Electric Cell'. This patent's number is 3,591,860 and every Black person reading this should take note that the Gamma Electric Cell is where we get the term 'cell phone' from.

The Gamma Electric Cell provides and produces high voltage radio waves that transmit and receive audio signals. And it's inside every cell phone...including the one you own.

This device is what makes 'mobile' telecommunication possible. 

Not only that, this device is what makes mobile internet service possible in every tablet, cell phone and laptop computer...just like the one I'm using to create this post. 

But if the Black Diaspora depends on the white media to tell us about great Black inventors like Henry, we'll never hear about them. 

Now, besides Henry, another name you'll see tethered to this invention is George H. Miley. This is supposedly the white man who helped Henry build this invention. 

But after doing some research, it seems what George is most famous for is a process of 'cold fusion' that produces 'low-energy reactions' in thin metal films. While the Gamma Electric Cell produces much more powerful, high voltage radio waves. 

George was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; so I guess whites figure sheer proximity to Dr. Sampson would be enough to associate him with the invention of the Gamma Electric Cell.

This smacks of whitey not wanting to give credit to Henry for his creation. But I wouldn't expect anything more from those fair-skinned folks. They've gotta' keep us thinking we're inferior to them, or else we might see them for the icy-blue eyed degenerates they really are.

So anytime you see a story about Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerburg and you see how they're lauded for their brilliance, or if some white person is keen on telling you how their people have created everything, you can tell them about Dr. Sampson...and you can watch them shut them the hell up!

Another reason we should celebrate Dr. Sampson is HE'S STILL LIVING! So we should honor the man while he can still appreciate the accolades in his lifetime.

Later...

MontUHURU Mimia