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The brilliant calculator : how mathematician Edith Clarke helped electrify America Cover Image Book

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

How mathematician Edith Clarke helps electrify America (portion title)
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]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
860L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 0.5 522639.

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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.
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Illustrated works.
Picture books.

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