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, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly.
- ISBN10 1629799386
- ISBN13 9781629799384
- Publish Date 25 February 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Highlights Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781629799384