BookStopping bullets with a thread : Stephanie Kwolek and her incredible ...
Personal name
Main title
- Stopping bullets with a thread : Stephanie Kwolek and her incredible invention / Edwin Brit Wyckoff.
Published/Created
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2008.
Links
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- Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034682.html
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Description
- 32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 9780766028500
- 076602850X
LC classification
- TS1440.K96 W93 2008
Summary
- Biography of the woman chemist who invented Kevlar, a superstrong fiber used to make, among other things, bullet-resistent vests.
LC Subjects
- Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014--Juvenile literature.
- Kwolek, Stephanie, 1923-2014.
- Industrial chemists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Inventors--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Ballistic fabrics--Juvenile literature.
- Polyphenyleneterephthalamide--Juvenile literature.
- Inventors.
- Chemists.
- Women--Biography.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.
Series
- Genius at work! Great inventor biographies
- Genius at work!
LCCN
- 2006034682
Dewey class no.
- 677/.68 B
- 926.77/68
Geographic area code
- n-us---
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)74029319
- (OCoLC)ocm74029319
Invalid system no.
- (OCoLC)84653128 (OCoLC)225976069 (OCoLC)229346330
Type of material
- Book
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- TS1440.K96 W93 2008
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- TS1440.K96 W93 2008
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