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Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
Thimmesh, Catherine. ;Sweet, Melissa, 1956-, illustrator.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin 2000
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Title:
Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
Author/Creator:
Thimmesh, Catherine.
Sweet, Melissa, 1956-, illustrator.
Publisher:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Creation Date:
2000
Language:
English
Physical Description:
57 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56) and index.
Subjects:
Women inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
;
Inventions -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Description:
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?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56) and index.
Contents:
Hsi-ling-shi
Sybilla Masters
Catherine Littlefield Greene
Mrs Samuel Slater
Mary Dixon Kies
Nancy Johnson
Sarah O. Mather
Maria Telkes and Eleanor Raymond
Martha Hunt Coston
Clarissa Britain
Anna E. Corey Baldwin
H.I.(Harriet) Irwin
Margerat E. Knight
Mary F. Potts
Mary Carpenter
Margaret Plunkitt Colvin
Amanda Theodosia Jones
Jane Wells
Helen Augusta Blanchard
Susan Taylor Converse
Lydia Bonney
Elizabeth Stiles
Mary Nolan
Maria Beasley
Adeline D.T. Whitney
Harriet Strong
Sarah E. Goode
Josephine G. Cochran
Sarah E. Ball
Maria E. Allen
Anna Connelly
Mirim E. Benjamin
Anna Breadin
Harriet R. Tracy
Cynthia Westover
Leonie Callmeyer
Anna Mangin
Letitia Geer
Mary Anderson
Anonymous
Catherine Ryan
Madam C.J. Walker
,Melitta Bentz
Carrie B. Averill
Rose O'Neill
Mary P. Jacobs
Laura M. Hicks
Madeline Turner
May Conner
Ida Forbes
Julie Auerbach
Elizabeth Phillips
Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Ruth Wakefield
Katherine Burr Blodgett
Gladys Whitcomb Geissmann
Hedwig Kiesler Maukey and George Antheil
Henrietta Mahim Bradberry.
""Front Cover""; ""Front Flap""; ""Endpapers""; ""Front Matter""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Back Matter""; ""Your Turn""; ""Further Reading""; ""Sources ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""; ""Endpaper ""
Target Audience:
Lexile: 960.
Audience: Middle School.
Reading Program Score:
Accelerated Reader 7.4.
Reading Counts! 6.3.
OCLC Number:
41712845
Identifier:
ISBN
0395937442;
ISBN
9780395937440;
ISBN
0613606760;
ISBN
9780613606769;
ISBN
0618195637;
ISBN
9780618195633;
LCCN
99036270
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