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The brilliant calculator : how mathematician Edith Clarke helped electrify America / Jan Lower + (illustrated by) Susan Reagan.

Lower, Jan, (author.). Reagan, Susan, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Edith Clarke devoured numbers, puzzles, and brainteasers. She was an innovator who dreams of how mathematics could modernize America. Fascinated by electricity, Clarke solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator. This accomplishment helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America.-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781662680069
  • ISBN: 1662680066
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
860L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 0.5 522639.
Subject:
Clarke, Edith, 1844-1926 > Juvenile literature.
Calculators > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Engineers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women engineers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Electrical engineers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Picture books.

Available copies

  • 18 of 19 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Old Fort Branch Library JUV BIO CLA (Text) 37810435653935 Juvenile Biography Available -
Andrews Public Library J B CLARKE (Text) 80605003668117 Juvenile Biography Available -
Ashe County Public Library J B CLARKE (Text) 50503300646652 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -
Cumberland Headquarters JB CLARKE (Text) 31781068641016 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -
Franklinton Branch JB/CLARKE (Text) 72350000034970 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -
Henderson Main Branch CLARKE (Text) 33258009758934 Juvenile Biography Checked out 08/14/2026
Hocutt-Ellington Memorial Library JB CLARKE (Text) 39523000187498 Juvenile Biography Available -
Hope Mills Library JB CLARKE (Text) 31781068641032 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -
Lenoir Library J B CLARKE Edith Lo (Text) 50669012750924 Juvenile Biography Available -
Macon County Public Library JB CLARKE (Text) 39493110539402 Juvenile Biography Available -