A brief biography of the woman who helped come up with a better way to can fruits and vegetables.
Inventions of Amanda Jones: The Vacuum Method of Canning and Food Preservation
A brief biography of the woman who helped come up with a better way to can fruits and vegetables.
The Inventions of Amanda Jones
Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins.
But this was not just anyone with a casual curiosity. She was an inventor with patents to her name and a successful businesswoman.She dedicated this book to William James, who had encouraged her to write it.
Some of the most crucial inventions in food and agriculture include food preserves, cellophane, canning, and frozen food. This book examines men and women who invented these objects and many others, and their impact on today_s society.
... 200 L'Engle , Madeleine , 85 Labouisse , Eve Curie , 51 , 282 Lacob , Miriam , 191 Landau , Elaine , 95 , 96 Langone , John , 184 Lantier , Patricia , 11 Lasky , Kathryn , 77 , 78 Lasson , Kenneth , 172 Lawson , Robert , 84 Layden ...
The names most often associated with this innovation are Carol Downer and Lorraine Rothman . Downer is one of the founders of the women's self - help health movement , and a leader of the Los Angeles group . Rothman invented and ...
... The Inventions of Alexander Graham Bell The Telephone The Inventions of Amanda Jones The Vacuum Method of Canning and Food Preservation The Inventions of Eli Whitney The Cotton Gin The Inventions of Granville Woods The Railroad ...
Provides a biographical sketch of Eli Whitney and a description of his most famous invention, the cotton gin, which made the harvesting of cotton easier.