Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek, John Wiley, ÂŁ17.95/$24.95, ISBN 0471023345
I FIND inventions intriguing—I particularly enjoy hearing how and why they came about, and I am often asked why there aren’t more female inventors—so I looked forward to reading this book, but I was generally disappointed.
Some stories—notably those of Teri Pall and Ada Lovelace—are well told, but many seem to be largely myth. And several inventions appear to be grossly over-hyped. Many stories appear entirely without dates, and could have happened at any time in the past 150 years.
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