Download or read book Women Inventors 2 written by Jean F. Blashfield and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins.

Download or read book Girls Young Women Inventing written by Frances A. Karnes and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines twenty young female inventors and their creations, from Jennifer Donabar and her electric lock to Jeanie Low and her kiddie stool.

Download or read book Feminine Ingenuity written by Anne L. MacDonald and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1994-02-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the achievements of women inventors from the first patent issued in 1809 to the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1991.

Download or read book The Right Sisters written by Julia Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Right Sisters" reveals the creative mind at work in a context never before examined so intimately-the journeys taken by ten modern women inventors. Their stories are compelling and they are instructive. When Julia Rhodes created the prototype for her first invention, she knew nothing about manufacturing and marketing. She nevertheless moved ahead wholeheartedly. She took risks and made mistakes. She dealt with the complexities of applying for a patent and navigating the corporate world of business. She made friends and garnered the invaluable support of women. "The Right Sisters" is about the women inventors she met. Rhodes has now combined forces with Patricia Harrelson to record the stories of these 21st Century women inventors. The book is rich with imagination, intelligence, and the uniquely feminine perspective that led these women to succeed in a field typically dominated by men. Ultimately each story reveals the generous nature of women as they turn dreams into tangible products. An inventor and founder of KleenSlate Concepts, Julia Rhodes longed for female role models as she introduced her first product and began to grow her company. She now offers mentorship and guidance to every woman with an inventive idea by sharing her experience along with the stories of nine other women inventors in "The Right Sisters." -Susan Solovic, author The Girls Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business Understanding the strategies necessary to develop a successful product, Julia Rhodes effectively worked with Office Depot to get her educational products to market. Drawing on this experience, she worked with Patricia Harrelson to write an innovative guide for women who are embarking on the inventor/entrepreneurial journey. -Shari Francis Manager of Vendor Development Office Depot Julia Rhodes is a motivational speaker, inventor, and entrepreneur. Patricia Harrelson is a freelance writer and author of "Between Two Women: Conversations About Love and Relationship."

Download or read book African American Inventors II written by Susan K. Henderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographical profiles of five African American inventors including Bill Becoat, George Carruthers, Meredith Gourdine, Jesse Hoagland, and Wanda Sigur.

Download or read book Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women written by Aitziber Lopez and published by Wide Eyed Editions. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories behind 15 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique contribution to the history of science and technology. Car heaters…Monopoly…Disposable diapers…The dishwasher…Kevlar…Maritime flares… Anti-reflective glass…Wifi…Syringes…Submarine periscopes…Diagnostic tests…Lifeboats…Windshield wipers…Ebooks…What do each of these revolutionary inventions have in common? They were all pioneered by women! 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. From lifeboat-inventor, Maria Beasley, to the grandmother of the ebook, Ángela Ruiz Robles, each of the inspiring women in this book achieved their goal of leaving the world a better place than they found it.

Download or read book Incredible Women Inventors written by Sandra Braun and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in the acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series profiles 10 incredible women with an itch to invent. Written in an accessible, engaging, and informative style, Incredible Women Inventors examines both the challenges and successes in the lives of ten international problem-solvers. From Anna Sutherland Bissell, inventor of the carpet sweeper, to Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill, the first woman aircraft designer in the world, young readers will have much to motivate them after reading these biographies, both in science and in life in general.

Download or read book Girls Young Women Inventing written by Frances A. Karnes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines twenty young female inventors and their creations, from Jennifer Donabar and her electric lock to Jeanie Low and her kiddie stool.

Download or read book Girls Think of Everything written by Catherine Thimmesh and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

Download or read book Women Inventors and the 7 Percent written by Robert Llc. and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an aha moment... ...that would change their lives forever. Russie Coy Jones was taking care of her father, who suffered with COPD and dementia fell during a blackout in 2009. Guess what she invented and what can we learn from these stories? Anne Brewer dropped her cell phone into a port-a-john. NASTY! but that's how the Wallabox was born. Becca Brown and Monica Ferguson were frustrated by destroying their high heel shoes on uneven surfaces like cobblestone and grass. Oprah calls their invention, the Solemates "Genius" Do you want to know what happens next? Frances Prado was inspired while reorganizing her drawers to become the inventor of Hanging Secrets. On her LinkedIn profile is written- I was amongst an elite class; only 7% of all sole inventors in the United States are women and less than 0.30% are Latina. The distinctions are humbling. Humbling? I call it tragic. If only 7% of all sole inventors in the United States are women, what is the percentage in Great Britian, South Africa, or Iran? You'll love learning what it means to today's Women Inventors to be part of this elite group... Get it now.

Download or read book Patently Female written by Ethlie Ann Vare and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at women inventors and their inventions.

Download or read book Science on the Home Front written by Jordynn Jack and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical assay of the rhetorical and cultural obstacles faced by women scientists

Download or read book Hedy s Folly written by Richard Rhodes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.

Download or read book Black Inventors written by Keith Holmes and published by Global Black Inventor Resea. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, highlights the work of Black inventors from over seventy countries. The author, Keith C. Holmes, has spent more than twenty years researching Black inventors from countries that include Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, St. Vincent, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States. Without inventions, innovations, financial resources, materials, muscle and labor saving devices, civilizations cannot exist and flourish. This book documents a number of inventions, patents and labor saving devices conceived by Black inventors. Among many other inventions, pre-enslaved Africans, developed agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth and weapons. Although historical documents emphasize that millions of Black people arrived in Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the United States under slavery's yoke, it is relatively unknown that thousands of Africans and their descendants developed numerous labor-saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide. While most authors focus primarily on American and European inventors, Keith Holmes introduces inventions, both past and present, that Black people, developed and patented globally and multiculturally.Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, also features early Black inventors from virtually every state in the US. It includes details about the first Black inventor who obtained a patent in both the Caribbean and the United States. To date, seventeen African American men have been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Two inventors, Jan E, Matzeliger, (Suriname) and Elijah McCoy, (Colchester, Canada) were not born in this countryThe material available in this book, one of the first to address the diversity of black inventors and their inventions from a global perspective, effectively gives the reader, researcher, librarian, student, and teacher the materials they need to understand that the Black inventor is not only a national phenomenon, but also a global giant.

Download or read book Broad Band written by Claire L. Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now. "This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man. The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers--but from Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program in the Victorian Age, to the cyberpunk Web designers of the 1990s, female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation. In fact, women turn up at the very beginning of every important wave in technology. They may have been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize, but they have always been part of the story. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. This inspiring call to action shines a light on the bright minds whom history forgot, and shows us how they will continue to shape our world in ways we can no longer ignore. Welcome to the Broad Band. You're next.

Download or read book Women Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on a conference, examines both quantitative and qualitative evidence regarding the low employment of women scientists and engineers in the industrial work force of the United States, as well as corporate responses to this underparticipation. It addresses the statistics underlying the question "Why so few?" and assesses issues related to the working environment and attrition of women professionals.

Download or read book Incredible Women Inventors written by Sandra Braun and published by Women's Hall of Fame. This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles ten women inventors, covering their lives, the inventions they created, and how their inventions became a success.