In 1753 at about the age of 21, Banneker completed a wooden clock that struck on the hour.
He appears to have modeled his clock from a borrowed pocket watch by
carving each piece to scale.
The clock purportedly continued to work
until his death.
Total solar eclipse (1999)
After his father died in 1759, Banneker lived with his mother and sisters.
In 1768, he signed a Baltimore County petition to move the county seat from Joppa to Baltimore.
In 1772, brothers Andrew Ellicott, John Ellicott and Joseph Ellicott moved from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and bought land along the Patapsco Falls near Banneker's farm on which to construct gristmills, around which the village of Ellicott's Mills (now Ellicott City) subsequently developed.
The Ellicotts were Quakers and shared the same views on racial equality as did many of their faith. Banneker studied the mills and became acquainted with their proprietors.
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