Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ainissa Ramirez, Setor Fiadzigbey (Illustrator)Series:The Black InnovatorsAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:10/21/2025Pages:40
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mit Kids PressISBN-13:9781536225280ISBN-10:1536225282UPC:9781536225280Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, TechnologyBook Topic:Science & Technology, InventionsSize:10.50 x 8.60 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCX9AFE835
Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone
In this first picture book in the Black Innovators series, meet the insatiably curious Jim West, who invented a vital piece of the device we all carry in our pockets--transforming how the world communicates today. Young Jim West loves to pull apart whatever electronics he can get his hands on to see how they work. Those around him say there's no path for a kid like him to become a scientist, but...
Series: The Black Innovators
Audience: Ages 9-12
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mit Kids PressISBN-13:9781536225280ISBN-10:1536225282UPC:9781536225280Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, TechnologyBook Topic:Science & Technology, InventionsSize:10.50 x 8.60 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCX9AFE835
Ainissa Ramirez dreamed of becoming a scientist since she was a little girl. She got the idea after seeing an African American girl solve problems on a television show called 3-2-1 Contact. In that moment, Ainissa saw her reflection. She later earned her doctorate in materials science from Stanford and worked at Bell Labs, where she met Jim West. She wrote this book--the first of a planned...
Publisher: Mit Kids Press
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