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Sybilla Masters
Sources Used in the Creation of this Biography

Blashfield, Jean F. Women Inventors Book 4.  Minneapolis, MN: Capstone Press, c1996.

Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson.  Hannah Penn and the Proprietorship of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: International Printing Co., c1958.

Lienhart, John H. “Engines of Our Ingenuity No. 326: Colonial Women Inventors." (Online) Available http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi326.htm  Accessed 6 May, 2002.

Macdonald, Anne L. Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Inventions in America.  New York: Ballantine Books, c1992.

“Masters, Sybilla.”  (Online) Available http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/MASTERS.html Accessed  6 May, 2002.

“Mayors of the City of Philadelphia 1691-2000.” Online. Available http://www.phila.gov/phils/Mayortxt.htm Accessed 6 March 2003.

The Pennsylvania Manual.Volume 113.  Department of General Services for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, December 1997.

“Sybilla Masters (died 1720)” (Online) Available http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmasters.htm Accessed May 6, 2002.

“Sybilla Masters: First American Woman Inventor.” (Online) Available http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/sybillamasters.htm Accessed 6 May, 2002.

Thimmesh, Catherine. Girls Think of Everything. Stories of  Ingenious Inventions by Women.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., c2000.

”Woman of the Day Thursday, May 17, 2001. Sybilla Masters (?-1720)”  (Online) Available http://archives.emazing.com/archives/womanday/2001-05-17 Accessed 6 May, 2002.

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