Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women / Catherine Thimmesh ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: New editionDescription: 106 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781328772534
- 1328772535
- Stork, Anna -- Juvenile literature
- Anderson, Mary, 1866-1953 -- Juvenile literature
- Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014 -- Juvenile literature
- Hopper, Grace Murray -- Juvenile literature
- Knight, Margaret E., 1838-1914 -- Juvenile literature
- Bath, Patricia, 1942- -- Juvenile literature
- Crews, Jeanne Lee, 1940- -- Juvenile literature
- Sherman, Patsy O'Connell, 1930-2008 -- Juvenile literature
- Moore, Ann, 1940- -- Juvenile literature
- Women inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Inventions -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 609.252 T443 | Available | 33111008916328 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities
Features women inventors Ruth Wakefield, Mary Anderson, Stephanie Kwolek, Bette Nesmith Graham, Patsy O. Sherman, Ann Moore, Grace Murray Hopper, Margaret E. Knight, Jeanne Lee Crews, and Valerie L. Thomas, as well as young inventors ten-year-old Becky Schroeder and eleven-year-old Alexia Abernathy. Illustrated in vibrant collage by Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet.
Selected timeline on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99) and index.
In the beginning -- Chocolate chip cookie: Ruth Wakefield -- LuminAID: Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta -- Windshield wipers: Mary Anderson -- Turning plastic into fuel: Azza Abdelhamid Faiad -- Kevlar: Stephanie Kwolek -- Hot seat: Alissa Chavez -- Computer compiler, Grace Murray Hopper -- ReThink, Trisha Prabhu -- Paper bag folding machine, Margaret E. Knight -- Laserphaco probe, Dr. Patricia Bath -- Space bumper, Jeanne Lee Crews -- Combating drought with orange peels: Kiara Nirghin -- Scotchgard: Patsy O. Sherman -- Snugli: Ann Moore -- Roominate: Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen -- Your turn.
Expanded and revised, this new edition of the best-selling book celebrates the ingenious inventions of women throughout time. As inspiring as they are fascinating, these stories empower readers to imagine, to question, to experiment, and then to go forth... and invent.