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Amazing discoveries, inventions & designs by women

On back cover: Complete with a step-by-step guide to developing your own inventions! Contents: Innovation -- The inventor's glossary -- Inventing tips -- Ways of discovering -- Looking after your ideas

Summary: An introduction to fifty extraordinary discoveries, inventions and designs by inspirational women. From windscreen wipers to the life raft; coffee filters to emergency flares; Apollo Mission software to Monopoly: women have discovered, invented and designed some of the most important things we all take for granted, but many of their names are unknown. Meet incredible inventors from around the world, and learn how inventions happen. This illustrated book is a guide to remarkable, practical, skillful and amazing inventions by women who have made their mark on history