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Author:

Maggs, Sam, author.

Title:

Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history / Written by Sam Maggs ; Illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino.

Publisher:

Quirk Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

238 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Women inventors--Biography.
Women in science--Biography.

Other Authors:

Foster-Dimino, Sophia, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index.

Contents:

Bessie Coleman. Wang Zhenyi -- Ada Lovelace -- Lise Meitner -- Emmy Noether -- Alice Ball -- Women of medicine: Jacqueline Felice -- De Almania -- Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell -- Ogino Ginko -- Anandibai Joshi -- Marie Equi -- Women of espionage: Brita Tott -- Mary Bowser -- Sarah Emma Edmonds -- Elvira Chaudoir -- Noor Inayat Khan -- Women of innovation: Huang Daopo -- Margaret Knight -- Miriam Bejamin -- Bessie Blount Griffin -- Mary Sherman Morgan -- Women of adventure: Maria Sibylla Merian -- Annie Smith Peck -- Ynes Mexia -- Annie Londonderry -- Bessie Coleman.

ISBN:

1594749256
9781594749254

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959398191

LCCN:

2016930951

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