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Author Wyckoff, Edwin Brit, author.

Title The woman who invented the thread that stops bullets : the genius of Stephanie Kwolek / by Edwin Brit Wyckoff.

Publisher Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Elementary, an imprint of Enslow Publishers, [2014]

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Descript. 48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits ; 24 cm.
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Series Genius inventors and their great ideas
Genius inventors and their great ideas.
Note "Original edition published as Stopping Bullets with a Thread : Stephanie Kwolek and Her Incredible Invention in 2008"--Title page verso.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 46) and index.
Contents The deadliest chase -- Designing fashions and fibers -- Challenging nature -- The cloudy outlook -- The survivors' club -- Timeline.
Summary "Read about Stephanie Kwolek and her incredible invention"--Provided by publisher.
Subject 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.
Women inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Industrial chemists -- United States -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Ballistic fabrics.
Women inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Biographies. -- Juvenile literature.
Biography.
ISBN 9780766041417