Uses short biographies of women inventors around the world to demonstrate how inventions come about.

Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions. Sybilla Masters, Mary Beatrice, Mildred Davidson, Stephanie Kwolek, Frances Gabe.

Describes how Mattie Knight developed her first invention, a stop-motion device to make looms safer for workers.

"As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness!"--Inside book jacket.

"Tech is everywhere! Learn more about the innovators who created the technology world. These innovators are women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ready to be recognized"--

Chronicles the life of the woman who invented a line of hair-care products, an enterprise that made her the first African American woman to become a millionaire.

"Read about the men and women who have improved our lives through science including Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, astronaut Mae Jemison, inventor George Washington Carver, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, and many more"--

Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.

"Acknowledges, applauds, and amplifies the incredible stories of 100 inspiring Black women and girls from the past and present."--

"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds. Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. At seventeen,...