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Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.Description: 57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0395937442
  • 9780395937440
  • 0613606760
  • 9780613606769
  • 0618195637
  • 9780618195633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • J/609/.2273 GIR
LOC classification:
  • T39 .T48 2000
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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?
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
JNF JNF Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction J 609.2 THI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) T39 .T48 2000 1 Available 34517000332091

Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56) and index.

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.

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?

Middle School.

960 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader 7.4.

Reading Counts! 6.3.

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