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Up Periscope! How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

Hardback (19 Dec 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The inspiring story of engineer Raye Montague, a hidden figure who created the first comprehensive computer program to design ships for the US Navy.

Girls like Raye Montague weren't supposed to like math or science, or go to engineering school. But tenacious Raye had a plan, one that eventually took her all the way to the US Navy. There, she was assigned an impossible task: to come up with a single computer program that could design every part of a ship. It had never been done before-but Raye's groundbreaking program revolutionized the way ships and submarines were built, and set her on a path to become a pioneering figure in naval engineering and the navy's first female program manager of ships.

Award-winning author Jennifer Swanson and acclaimed illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison celebrate a self-made engineer who worked around anyone and anything that stood in her way in this illuminating biography about never giving up on your dreams.

About the Publisher

Little, Brown Young Readers

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780316565486
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 623.8092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 40
Weight: 440g
Height: 260mm
Width: 260mm
Spine width: 12mm