Camp, Carole Ann

Ten biographies of American women inventors, including Madam C.J. Walker, Lillian Gilbreth, Beulah Henry, Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Rachel Fuller Brown, Katherine Blodgett, Gertrude B. Elion, Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Edith Flanigen, and Ellen Ochoa.

Follows the struggles and triumphs of ten women breaking through the science barriers.

Brief biographies of ten American astronomers, including Maria Mitchell, Percival Lowell, and Carl Sagan.

A biography of Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman to travel in space.