Author: Carole Ann Camp
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766019133
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In American Women Inventors, author Carole Ann Camp explores the lives, challenges, and discoveries of some of the most prominent female inventors in the United States. Biographies include Madam C. J. Walker, Lillian Gilbreth, Beulah Henry, Katherine Burr Blodgett, Gertrude B. Elion, Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Edith Flanigen, Ellen Ochoa, Elizabeth Lee Hazen, and Rachel Fuller Brown. Book jacket.
American Women Inventors
Author: Carole Ann Camp
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766019133
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In American Women Inventors, author Carole Ann Camp explores the lives, challenges, and discoveries of some of the most prominent female inventors in the United States. Biographies include Madam C. J. Walker, Lillian Gilbreth, Beulah Henry, Katherine Burr Blodgett, Gertrude B. Elion, Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Edith Flanigen, Ellen Ochoa, Elizabeth Lee Hazen, and Rachel Fuller Brown. Book jacket.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766019133
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In American Women Inventors, author Carole Ann Camp explores the lives, challenges, and discoveries of some of the most prominent female inventors in the United States. Biographies include Madam C. J. Walker, Lillian Gilbreth, Beulah Henry, Katherine Burr Blodgett, Gertrude B. Elion, Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Edith Flanigen, Ellen Ochoa, Elizabeth Lee Hazen, and Rachel Fuller Brown. Book jacket.
Feminine Ingenuity
Author: Anne L. MacDonald
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America.
Women Inventors
Author: Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816033850
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book presents ten gifted women from diverse eras and backgrounds whose inventions have had a profound impact on the way we live.
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816033850
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book presents ten gifted women from diverse eras and backgrounds whose inventions have had a profound impact on the way we live.
Women Inventors
Author: Stephen Currie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560068655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Presents biographical sketches on five of the most influential American women inventors and describes their inventions, obtacles with which they were confronted, and their impact on American society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560068655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Presents biographical sketches on five of the most influential American women inventors and describes their inventions, obtacles with which they were confronted, and their impact on American society.
Women Invent!
Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569765111
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Uses short biographies of women inventors around the world to demonstrate how inventions come about.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569765111
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Uses short biographies of women inventors around the world to demonstrate how inventions come about.
Feminine Ingenuity
Author: Anne L. Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329047719
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A social history of American women inventors, beginning with Mary Dixon Kies, the first woman to receive a patent for her method of weaving straw in 1809, through the accomplishments of Gertrude Elion, the first woman to be inducted into the Inventors' Hall of Fame in 1991.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329047719
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A social history of American women inventors, beginning with Mary Dixon Kies, the first woman to receive a patent for her method of weaving straw in 1809, through the accomplishments of Gertrude Elion, the first woman to be inducted into the Inventors' Hall of Fame in 1991.
Women Inventors and Their Discoveries
Author: Ethlie Ann Vare
Publisher: Oliver PressInc
ISBN: 9781881508069
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Surveys the lives and work of such innovative women as Grace Hopper, Fannie Farmer, C. J. Walker, and Stephanie Kwolek.
Publisher: Oliver PressInc
ISBN: 9781881508069
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Surveys the lives and work of such innovative women as Grace Hopper, Fannie Farmer, C. J. Walker, and Stephanie Kwolek.
Black Stars
Author: Otha Richard Sullivan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111846639X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Meet African american women of science and invention from the early years to modern Times Patricia Bath, M.D. Miriam E. Benjamin Ursula Burns Alexa Canady, M.D. Jewel Plummer Cobb, Ph.D. Ellen F. Eglin Angela D. Ferguson, M.D. Sara E. Goode Evelyn Boyd Granville, Ph.D. Dannellia Gladden Green, Ph.D. Bessie Blount Griffin Betty Wright Harris, Ph.D. Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Aprille Joy Ericsson Jackson, Ph.D. Mae Jemison, M.D. Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Ph.D. Mary Kenner Reatha Clark King, Ph.D. Annie Turnbo Malone Mildred Austin Smith Valerie Thomas Madame C. J. Walker Jane Cooke Wright, M.D. Roger Arliner Young, Ph.D. Chavonda J. Jacobs Young, Ph.D.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111846639X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Meet African american women of science and invention from the early years to modern Times Patricia Bath, M.D. Miriam E. Benjamin Ursula Burns Alexa Canady, M.D. Jewel Plummer Cobb, Ph.D. Ellen F. Eglin Angela D. Ferguson, M.D. Sara E. Goode Evelyn Boyd Granville, Ph.D. Dannellia Gladden Green, Ph.D. Bessie Blount Griffin Betty Wright Harris, Ph.D. Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Aprille Joy Ericsson Jackson, Ph.D. Mae Jemison, M.D. Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Ph.D. Mary Kenner Reatha Clark King, Ph.D. Annie Turnbo Malone Mildred Austin Smith Valerie Thomas Madame C. J. Walker Jane Cooke Wright, M.D. Roger Arliner Young, Ph.D. Chavonda J. Jacobs Young, Ph.D.
Feminine Ingenuity
Author: Anne L. MacDonald
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Celebrates the achievements of women inventors from the first patent issued in 1809 to the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1991.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Celebrates the achievements of women inventors from the first patent issued in 1809 to the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1991.
The Most Influential Female Inventors
Author: Xina M. Uhl
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508179654
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Silk, the windshield wiper, and the paper grocery bag all have something in common: each had a female inventor. This informative resource discusses innovations that women from all cultures, ethnicities, and time periods have made, and are continuing to make. Their invaluable contributions span all industries, including medicine, science, technology, the home, the food industry, fashion, safety, business, and commerce. With high-interest photographs, a timeline, and engaging sidebars, this timely guide reveals the spirit of female ingenuity in times past and into the 21st century.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508179654
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Silk, the windshield wiper, and the paper grocery bag all have something in common: each had a female inventor. This informative resource discusses innovations that women from all cultures, ethnicities, and time periods have made, and are continuing to make. Their invaluable contributions span all industries, including medicine, science, technology, the home, the food industry, fashion, safety, business, and commerce. With high-interest photographs, a timeline, and engaging sidebars, this timely guide reveals the spirit of female ingenuity in times past and into the 21st century.