Benjamin Banneker is an African American scientist born in 1731 who accomplished much in the areas of scientific and mathematic discovery until his death in 1806. Banneker is known for his intellectual prowess despite a lack of extensive schooling in the sciences--he was briefly educated in a one-room schoolhouse in his hometown of Oella, Maryland. He is credited for his help in a survey of land in Washington, D.C. to help in the construction of the city, but perhaps most famous for his extensive accomplishments in the mathematical construction of a clock, publications of yearly almanacs, and predictions of lunar eclipses.
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