Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane

by Tracy Subisak and Kirsten W. Larson

Book Overview

Meet self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane.

Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629799386
• ISBN13: 9781629799384
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5