num_pages: 240
description: You may think you know womens history pretty well but have you ever heard of. . .  Alice Ball the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosyonly to have the credit taken by a man? Mary Sherman Morgan the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted the first U.S. satellite into orbit? Huang Daopo the inventor whose weaving technology revolutionized textile production in Chinacenturies before the cotton gin? Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant brainy and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists engineers mathematicians adventurers and inventors. Also included are interviews with real-life women in STEM careers an extensive bibliography and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizationsall to show the many ways the geeky girls of today can help build the future.
language: English
title: Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
publisher: Quirk Books