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on 3/6/02 6:05 PM, John G. Wells at jjwellsfamily@COMCAST.NET wrote:

> Dear LM_Netters,
> I am looking for information for my fifth and sixth grade students on the
> following women inventors:
> Mary Olliden Weaver--Inventor of the super slurper
> Ellen Eglui--Inventor of the clothes wringer
> Si Ling Chi--Legendary Empress of China, inventor of silk

I'm really trying not to come off as picky-picky, but she could not have
invented silk, when the silkworms had done it long before she was born.  She
might have invented silk thread, or silk fabric, or some form of silk
processing, but please lets foster accuracy in those students we seek to
help and remind them that silk could be discovered, but not invented.


--
Gail Smith, Librarian and Tech Coordinator
Edison Regional Gifted Center
Chicago, Illinois
gsmith@edison.cps.k12.il.us

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