Product Description: Tundra's Great Idea Series are early-reader biographies. The third book in the series introduces the fascinating Margaret Knight. Known as Mattie, she was different from most American girls living in 1850. She loved to make things with wood and made the best kites and sleds in town...read more

Profiles ten women inventors, covering their lives, the inventions they created, and how their inventions became a success.

From windshield wipers to the Rover craft that landed on Mars, this book offers a look at the many great inventions designed by women throughout the years. (view table of contents)

Surveys the lives and work of such innovative women as Grace Hopper, Fannie Farmer, C. J. Walker, and Stephanie Kwolek

Describes how women invent such items as Liquid Paper, chocolate chip cookies, tract houses, brassieres, computer compilers, and nonreflecting glass