The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America Lower Jan
The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America Lower Jan Hidden Figures meets Rosie Revere, Engineer in this STEM/STEAM picture book about Edith Clarke, the…
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The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America Lower Jan
Hidden Figures meets Rosie Revere, Engineer in this STEM/STEAM picture book about Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper!Long before calculators were invented, little Edith Clarke devoured numbers, conquered calculations, cracked puzzles, and breezed through brainteasers. But that didn't stop Edith from following her passion and putting her lightning-quick mind to the problem of electricity. Edith wanted to be an engineer--to use the numbers she saw all around her to help build America.When she grew up, no one would hire a woman engineer.
Always curious, Edith couldn't help thinking of better ways to do things. But the calculations took so long! She constructed a "calculator" from paper that was ten times faster than doing all that math by hand!
Her invention won her a job, making