In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. Huang Daopo, the inventor whose weaving technology revolutionized textile production in China-centuries before the cotton gin?. Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted the first U.S.Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy-only to have the credit taken by a man?.You may think you know women’s history pretty well. A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
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