Women's History Month - March 2005: Women Scientists and Inventors

Women in Science and Invention

 

Below you will find a picture of our display and links to valuable Internet resources relating to women that are/were scientists and inventors.

 

  

women's history month 2005




Science in General:
4000 Years of Women in Science
Historia: Women Scientists in History
Profiles of Famous Women Scientists

By Science Subjects:
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Astronomy
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Chemistry
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Engineering
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Mathematics
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Physics


Women inventors and their inventions:
Distinguised Women of Past and Present: Invention
Women in the History of Technology - Women Inventors
Women granted a U.S. patent 1790-1895


Books on Display:
Several books are used in this display. Click on the titles below to find out more about them.

American Women in Technology: An Encyclopedia by Linda Zierdt-Warshaw, Alan Winkler, and Leonard Bernstein         Also available online

The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron by Joan Baum

Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America by Anne L. Macdonald

International Encyclopedia of Women Scientists by Elizabeth H. Oakes

Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse by David E. Brown

Inventive Genius by Time-Life Books

Julia, a life in mathematics by Constance Reid

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime

Madame Curie by Eve Curie