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Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women: 15 incredible inventions inspiring women!
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Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women: 15 incredible inventions inspiring women!
Current price: $16.99
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Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women: 15 incredible inventions inspiring women!
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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
have in common? They were
! Each brilliant idea is presented with
about the brilliant woman who came up with it, including
. 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.
show the inspiration for and use of these incredible inventions in
. 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
.