Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America - Hardcover

MacDonald, Anne L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345358112 ISBN 13: 9780345358110

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 514 pages; Description: 514 pages. Illustrated. Subjects: Celebrates the women inventors from Mary Kies of 1809, to Gertrude Elion, the Nobel Prize Laureate whose anti-cancer drugs led to her 1991 election as the first woman in the Inventors Hall of Frame. Biography & Autobiography. Science & Technology. History -Inventions - United States. Social Science - Women's Studies. Engineering

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Reseña del editor

Chronicles--from colonial times to the present day--the stories of women who ventured into a male-dominated world to invent such products as windshield wipers, the cotton gin, the cow milker, Liquid Paper, and many more.

Nota de la solapa

n with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0345358112
• ISBN 13: 9780345358110
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 514