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81) Garrett Morgan
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"Simple text and photographs present the life of Garrett Morgan, an African-American inventor and entrepreneur"--
82) Women inventors
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Profiles such famous women inventors as Margaret Knight, Stephanie Kwolek, and Patsy Sherman.
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Empak "Black history" publication volume 2
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Biographical material on twelve black Americans who made significant contributions to science and technology in America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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"El limpiaparabrisas, el envasado al vacío o la sierra circular son inventos tan cotidianos como invisibles son las mujeres que los idearon. La ilustradora Mercedes Palacios propone un viaje a lo largo de diferentes lugares y épocas para descubrir a algunas de las mujeres que, en muchas ocasiones sin ningún reconocimiento, en casi todas a contracorriente, y siempre venciendo los estereotipos sociales que las relegaban a un papel secundario, fueron...
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Famous STEM Inventors is an exciting collection of stories of young inventors and how they invented new things such as glowing paper, the surfboard, ear muffs, the television, the popsicle and more. It includes the engineering design process behind every invention to encourage children to understand the methods of inventing anything new. The book also contains prompts which inspire kids to design and create their own new gadget or useful thing.
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"In The Renaissance Inventors with History Projects for Kids, readers 10 through 15 explore the period of European history from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries while focusing on the biographies of five inventors from that time and the creations they brought to the world. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Gutenberg, and Gerardus Mercator are brought to life as kids discover the challenges these...
99) Steve Jobs
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Steve jobs was the co-founder and CEO of one of the most successful computer companies of all time, Apple Inc. This book provides an overview of Steve Jobs' many achievements.
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