Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas

by Ethlie Ann Vare

Hardcover, 2001

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Available

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Publication

Wiley (2001), Edition: 1, 240 pages

Description

A look at women inventors and their inventions.

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Subjects

Women inventors
Women inventors United States Biography

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

240 p.; 6.4 inches

ISBN

0471023345 / 9780471023340

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