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The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America

The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America

Lower, Jan
Reagan, Susan

Hardcover

BiographyScience & Nature

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1662680066
ISBN13: 9781662680069
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.39 Width: 8.66 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
A Mathical Honor Book

Hidden Figures meets Rosie Revere, Engineer in this STEM/STEAM picture book about Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper!

Long before calculators were invented, little Edith Clarke devoured numbers, conquered calculations, cracked puzzles, and breezed through brainteasers. Edith wanted to be an engineer--to use the numbers she saw all around her to help build America.

When she grew up, no one would hire a woman engineer. But that didn't stop Edith from following her passion and putting her lightning-quick mind to the problem of electricity. But the calculations took so long! Always curious, Edith couldn't help thinking of better ways to do things. She constructed a calculator from paper that was ten times faster than doing all that math by hand! Her invention won her a job, making her the first woman electrical engineer in America. And because Edith shared her knowledge with others, her calculator helped electrify America, bringing telephones and light across the nation.

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