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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 31 cm
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Español
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¿Te has fijado en los objetos, máquinas y muebles que tienes a tu alrededor? Todos han sido inventados por alguien. Y muchos de ellos fueron ideados por mujeres, por chicas que, como tú, querían mejorar el mundo. Es imposible hablar de todos los inventos y de todas las inventoras, pero aquí tienes una bonita y divertida selección. ¡Acércate un poco más y zambúllete en un mundo de progreso!
Introduces the women who invented automobile heating,...
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English
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"Sarah E. Goode was one of the first African-American women to get a US patent. Working in her furniture store, she recognized a need for a multi-use bed and through hard work, ingenuity, and determination, invented her unique cupboard bed. She built more than a piece of furniture. She built a life far away from slavery, a life where her sweet dreams could come true." --Amazon.com
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Daniel, who loves cats but is allergic to them, is delighted when his inventive neighbor Professor George builds him a bionic cat with fiber-optic fur, computer-controlled joints, electronic eyes, and ceramic-sensor whiskers.
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Glen and Stan, the Odd Couple of scamdom, are back from their Big Get-Even adventure with another get-rich-quick-or-go-down-in-flames scheme. They stumble upon a lone scientist and his half-genius, half-addlepated invention, which seems to promise a big payoff if they can dupe the right buyers. But infidelity, gangsters, foreign governments, and their own greed offer stumbling blocks galore.
11) Makers
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416 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture.
13) The jerk
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
16) Tomorrowland
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After a woman discovers a secret place known as "Tomorrowland," she tries to find her way back to the magical place to speak to an inventor about the technology of Tomorrowland.
19) Simply electrifying: the technology that transformed the world, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
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xvii, 462 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Looks at the stories of the researchers, innovators, businesspeople, and regulators who shaped how electricity was understood and used, from early researchers like Benjamin Franklin to contemporary innovators like Elon Musk.
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