Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women /
Thimmesh, Catherine.
Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women / - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. - 57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
0395937442 9780395937440 0613606760 9780613606769 0618195637 9780618195633
99036270
Women inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Inventions--History--United States--Juvenile literature.
Inventors.
Inventions.
Women--Biography.
History.
Juvenile works.
Biography.
T39 / .T48 2000
J/609/.2273 / GIR
Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women / - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. - 57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
0395937442 9780395937440 0613606760 9780613606769 0618195637 9780618195633
99036270
Women inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Inventions--History--United States--Juvenile literature.
Inventors.
Inventions.
Women--Biography.
History.
Juvenile works.
Biography.
T39 / .T48 2000
J/609/.2273 / GIR