Rockliff, Mara
Summary: This true story follows the story of Beatrice Shilling, a woman whose ingenuity, persistence, and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: "This STEM/STEAM picture book tells the story of Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper, an accomplishment that helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLATaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYBowers, Paige
Summary: Raye Montague was an ambitious little girl in segregated Little Rock. She grew to be a woman who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she could become the person and professional she aspired to be. Where some saw roadblocks, Montague only saw hurdles that needed to be overcome. Her mindset helped her become the first person to draft a Naval...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTAGUE, RAYE BOWDavis, Lynn
Summary: "The car changed travel forever. Henry Ford started a car-making revolution. Kids can read this book to find out how Ford transformed America with his cars. They will learn how many cars Ford made before the Model T Ford"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORSorell, Traci
Summary: "Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROSDye, Paul (Paul F.)
Summary: Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, and where errors led to the loss of national resources-- and more importantly, one's crew. From the powerful fiery ascent to the majesty of on-orbit operations to the high-speed and critical re-entry and landing of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DYE DYECarlson, W. Bernard
Summary: "This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"-
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 TESLA, NICOLA CARIsaacson, Walter
Summary: As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after a beating. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. Musk developed into a man-child, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUSK, ELON ISA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSK MUSShofner, Melissa Raé
Summary: "Boom! Dynamite can blast away mountainsides and bring down buildings. This powerful explosive was discovered over 150 years ago, but it wasn't always safe to use. That's because dynamite contains nitroglycerin, a very dangerous explosive. In the late 1860s, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel accidentally invented dynamite while he was working on a way to make nitroglycerin safer to handle. This book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 662 SHOMosca, Julia Finley
Summary: This is a rhyming-text picture book about Raye Montague. After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted-- finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MONCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MONTAGUE MOSNevala-Lee, Alec
Summary: "From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, BUCKMINSTER NEVMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORMorris, Edmund
Summary: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B EDISON MORYates, Brock
Summary: "Genius? Tyrant? Power broker? Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari's inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Modena to his bizarre relationship with his illegitimate son; from his fanatic passion for speed to his brilliant marketing of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HOFLarson, Kirsten W.
Summary: "Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TODHoyt, Megan
Summary: Written by award-winning author Megan Hoyt, this thoughtful STEM picture book biography about the brilliant architect of Grand Central Terminal is a celebration of resilience in the face of adversity, creative problem solving, and, of course, trains! With whimsical illustrations by Dave Szalay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILHagedorn, Ann
Summary: "The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021