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Brilliant ideas from wonderful women

Lopez, Aitziber, 1981-2019
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What do Monopoly, wifi, and lifeboats have in common? They were all invented by women! This book tells the inspiring stories of 15 women and their important inventions. Each brilliant idea is presented with biographical information about the brilliant woman who came up with it, including what inspired them. Learn how Martha Coston disguised herself as a man to contact pyrotechnicians and convince them to manufacture her idea for maritime flares, how a New York tram ride on a wet winter’s day led Mary Anderson to invent the windshield wiper and why Letitia Mumford Geer’s one-hand operated syringe was a medical breakthrough, among other fascinating facts. Full-page illustrations show the inspiration for and use of these incredible inventions in humorous detail.
Main title:
Brilliant ideas from wonderful women / written by Aitziber Lopez, illustrated by Luciano Lozano.
Imprint:
London : Wide Eyed Editions, 2019
Collation:
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 32 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish
Audience:
Juvenile
ISBN:
9781786037046 (hbk)
Dewey class:
609.252J609.252609
Local class:
J609.252609.252609
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
2428210
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