Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women / Catherine Thimmesh ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

Author
Thimmesh, Catherine [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Description
57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    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?
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56) and index.
    Target audience
    • Middle School.
    • 960 Lexile.
    Study program information
    • Accelerated Reader 7.4.
    • Reading Counts! 6.3.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0395937442
    • 9780395937440
    • 0613606760
    • 9780613606769
    • 0618195637
    • 9780618195633
    LCCN
    99036270
    OCLC
    41712845
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