The Brilliant Calculator
How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America
by Jan Lower; illustrated by Susan Reagan
Pub Date 14 Mar 2023
Astra Publishing House, Calkins Creek
Biographies & Memoirs | Children's Nonfiction | Science
I am reviewing a copy of The Brilliant Calculator through Astra Publishing House, Calkins Creek and Netgalley:
The Brilliant Calculator is the perfect book for girls interested in the S.T.E.M subjects, and honestly is one I'd recommend to all girls and boys regardless of age.
Long before the invention of Calculators little Edith Clarke devoured numbers, conquered calculations, cracked puzzles, and breezed through brainteasers. Edith wanted to be an engineer—to use the numbers she saw all around her to help build America.
As Edith grew up, no one would hire a woman engineer. But that didn’t stop Edith from following her passion and putting her lightning-quick mind to the problem of electricity. But the calculations took so long! Always curious, Edith couldn’t help thinking of better ways to do things. She constructed a “calculator” from paper that was ten times faster than doing all that math by hand! The invention won her a job, which made her the first women engineer in America. And because Edith shared her knowledge with others, her calculator helped electrify America, bringing telephones and light across the nation.
I give The Brilliant Calculator five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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