In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even
in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious
innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations
are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the
chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they
turn their ideas into realities?
Features women inventors Ruth Wakefield, Mary Anderson, Stephanie
Kwolek, Bette Nesmith Graham, Patsy O. Sherman, Ann Moore, Grace Murray
Hopper, Margaret E. Knight, Jeanne Lee Crews, and Valerie L. Thomas, as
well as young inventors ten-year-old Becky Schroeder and eleven-year-old
Alexia Abernathy. Illustrated in vibrant collage by Caldecott Honor
artist Melissa Sweet.