Written by Jean F. Blashfield
Meet women whose clever inventions, from paper-bag machines to medicines and toys, changed everyday life.
Short biographies of five women inventors and what they created, including Margaret Knight's machine for making flat-bottomed paper bags, the disease-fighting antibiotic discovered by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown, and Ruth Handler's Barbie doll, along with the story of Cynthia Westover.
Presents biographies of women and their inventions, including Ruth Handler and her invention of the Barbie doll, along with Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown for their disease-fighting antibiotics.
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