Marvelous Mattie
Title | Marvelous Mattie PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1466852097 |
With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father's toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented the machine that makes the square-bottom paper bags we still use today. However, in court, a man claimed the invention was his, stating that she "could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities." Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong, and over the course of her life earned the title of "the Lady Edison." With charming pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, this introduction to one of the most prolific female inventors will leave readers inspired. Marvelous Mattie is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Marvelous Mattie
Title | Marvelous Mattie PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
Publisher | Follettbound |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2006-02-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781415663936 |
In the Bag!
Title | In the Bag! PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Kulling |
Publisher | Tundra Books |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2013-08-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1770495150 |
Tundra's Great Idea Series are early-reader biographies. The third book in the series introduces the fascinating Margaret Knight. Known as Mattie, she was different from most American girls living in 1850. She loved to make things with wood and made the best kites and sleds in town. Her father died when she was only three and by the time she was twelve she was working at the local cotton mill, alongside her two older brothers. One day she saw a worker get injured by a shuttle which had come loose from the giant loom, and the accident inspired her to invent a stop-motion device. It was to be the first of her many inventions. Margaret devoted her life to inventing, and is best known for the clever, practical, paper bag. When she died in 1914 she had ninety inventions to her name and over twenty patents, astounding accomplishments for a woman of her day. Monica Kulling deftly uses easy-to-read language and lots of dialogue to bring an amazing, inspiring woman to life.
The Diary of Mattie Spenser
Title | The Diary of Mattie Spenser PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Dallas |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1998-05-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312187101 |
Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.
Margaret Knight
Title | Margaret Knight PDF eBook |
Author | Marlene Targ Brill |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Children as inventors |
ISBN | 9780761317562 |
Describes how Mattie Knight developed her first invention, a stop-motion device to make looms safer for workers.
How to Build a Hug
Title | How to Build a Hug PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Guglielmo |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1534410988 |
Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Giselle Potter come together to tell the inspiring story of autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin and her brilliant invention: the hug machine. As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn’t like hugs. Temple wanted to be held—but to her, hugs felt like being stuffed inside the scratchiest sock in the world; like a tidal wave of dentist drills, sandpaper, and awful cologne, coming at her all at once. Would she ever get to enjoy the comfort of a hug? Then one day, Temple had an idea. If she couldn’t receive a hug, she would make one…she would build a hug machine!
The Woman Who Invented the Thread that Stops Bullets
Title | The Woman Who Invented the Thread that Stops Bullets PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Brit Wyckoff |
Publisher | Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2013-07-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1464611246 |
Stephanie Louise Kwolek is an American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. In 1964, in anticipation of a gasoline shortage, her group began searching for a lightweight yet strong fiber to be used in tires. The polymers she had been working with at the time formed liquid crystal while in solution, something unique to those polymers at the time. However, Kwolek persuaded technician Charles Smullen to test her solution. She was amazed to find that the new fiber would not break when nylon typically would.