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The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke
Helped Electrify America
Sinopsis :
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&#8212frm paper!Long before calculators were
invented, little Edith Clarke devoured numbers, conquered
calculations, cracked puzzles, and breezed through
brainteasers. Edith wanted to be an engineer&#8212touse the
numbers she saw all around her to help build America.When
she grew up, no one would hire a woman engineer. But that
didn&#8217tstop 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&#8217thelp thinking of better ways to do things. She

constructed a &#8220caculator&#8221from paper that was ten
times faster than doing all that math by hand! Her invention
won her a job, making her the first woman electrical engineer
in America. And because Edith shared her knowledge with
others, her calculator helped electrify America, bringing
telephones and light across the nation.