Anonymous:
SANDWICHES.
Actually, a man invented the sandwich. (Not really, but they were named for one)
Pioneered the field of radioactivity, discovered polonium and radium, ran mobile X-ray units on the battlefields of WWI, oversaw the earliest research into radiation for cancer treatments, forced a reconsideration of the foundations of physics, while being the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. (Marie Curie)
We’ll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That’s because in the early years of the United States, a woman could not get a patent in her own name. A patent is considered a kind of property, and until the late 1800s laws forbade women in most states from owning property or entering into legal agreements in their own names. Instead, a woman’s property would be in the name of her father or husband.
For example, many people believe that Sybilla Masters was the first American woman inventor. In 1712 she developed a new corn mill, but was denied a patent because she was a woman. Three years later the patent was filed successfully in her husband’s name.
FactMonster.com (via stfuconservatives)
I mentioned this in Masters’s post, but it bears repeating, in BIG LETTERS.
Helped develop the process of separating uranium into the U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion in the Manhattan Project. (Chien-Shiung Wu)
Invented a method of canning food at low temperatures, after realizing that vacuum sealing and replaced with syrup could preserve food and its flavor. (Amanda Jones)
Here is a list of things that women have invented (some that we even still use today):
- “Apgar score” for assesssing the health of infants
- windshield wipers
- a way of processing film
- non-reflecting glass
- fireproof building material
- the world’s first antifungal antibiotic
- dishwasher
- maritime signal flares
- the cpr mannequin
- radium and x-rays
- the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine
- drugs that facilitated kidney transplants and other drugs for the treatment of cancer and leukemia
- pertroleum refining technology
- naturally coloured cotton
- white-out
- x-rays to find the structural layouts of atoms and to discover the overall molecular shape of over 100 molecules including: penicillin, vitamin B-12, vitamin D and insulin
- computerized telephone switching system
- a material five times stronger than steel called Kevlar.
And even way more than that. Medical advances, scientific advances, amazing engineers, designers, doctors, inventors, film-makers, writers, artists, huminitarians, politicians, soldiers, and more, can be women. There is nothing a woman is not capable of doing just because she is a woman.
Just wanted to reblog this list too. Also, the hydrometer. And the home diabetes test.
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windshield wipers.
NOW GIVE ME A HARD QUESTION,
The CPR Dummy.
Chocolate chip cookies.
Liquid Paper Correction Fluid (in fact, the woman who invented it was the mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith).
THE FIRST FRAGGIN’ CALENDAR.
The COBOL computing language.
Telnet! and other Internet protocols.
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Co-developed a medical research method based on looking for differences in nucleic acid metabolism between normal human cells, cancer cells, protozoa, bacteria and virus, which could be utilized to develop drugs that selectively block the growth of cancer cells and of noxious organisms, forming the basis for the development of drugs against a variety of disorders including leukemia, malaria, virus infections and gout. Won a Nobel Prize in Medicine, without having a PhD. (Gertrude Bell Elion)
THIS IS THE BLOG’S THEME SONG!
Created Kevlar which has many uses aside from bulletproof vests, including fibre optic cables, safety helmets, brake pads & sports equipment. (Stephanie Kwolek)
