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Monday, February 13, 2006

Word for the Week: ingenuity

Necessity is the mother of invention, and its father is ingenuity. Ingenuity provides the spark of creativity which fosters the opportunity presented by a recognized need. Opportunity plus ingenuity equals invention. African-American history illustrates many examples of the union of necessity and ingenuity leading to invention.

D.M.H.

ingenuity--inventiveness, cleverness, and originality.
Encarta Dictionary

Click on the link in the post title to see a list of African-American inventors.

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