Inventions by Women

[Levina]

Hunnnh....Chicken !

I knew I was correct !

Tomorrow means TOMORROW...

 

[vicky sen]

Have no doubts Mallika Sherawart is much smarter than Pappu.

She goes abroad and says India is regressive in American accent, and she needs a Competition to find a husband.

 

[Armstrong]

Tomorrow means TOMORROW...

Yeah....yeah - I believe you !

Scaredy Cat....Chicken...Tongue Tied !

 

[qamar1990]

10. Chocolate Chip Cookies

The accidental invention of the chocolate chip cookies came about when Ruth Wakefield had run out of chocolate for her butter cookie recipe and so crumbled a nestle bar. When the batch was ready baked she noticed that the chocolate had kept its shape rather than melting. Nestle went on to put Ruth’s recipe on the back of their first boxes of packaged nestle chocolate chip cookies.

9. Alphabet Blocks

Helping children everywhere to learn their ABC’s, alphabet blocks are a timeless classic and are an addition to a lot of toddler’s toy boxes. That’s all thanks to Adeline D.T. Whitney who patented them in 1882, and ever since they have been a wonderful learning tool.

8. Circular Saw

Having watched worker men using a two handled saw, which required two people and only worked if pulled one way, Tabitha Babbitt came to realize that this was a waste of both time and energy. She made a prototype of the circular saw which went on to save the time and energy. Although she never got a patent for what she did invent, she was the first known person to make such a thing as the circular saw.

7. Correction Fluid

Where would the world be without correction fluid? It wasn’t until 1951 that people were actually able to coat over their mistakes rather than cross out and re-write it correctly, giving the look of untidiness. An invention that has been said to have been first made in Bette Nesmith Graham’s kitchen, correction fluid is widely used everywhere when mistakes are made on paper.

6. Kevlar

1964 was the year that Kevlar was first invented by a woman named Stephanie Kwolek. The popular material is now used in everyday objects such as bike tires, but it is also used in everyday life saving equipment such as body armor. It is said to be 5 times stronger than steel, and does not rust or corrode.

5. Windscreen Wipers

The silent and understated lifesaver; the windscreen wiper was invented in 1903 by Mary Anderson. The American woman has made driving in all weather conditions a whole lot easier, by making the view of the road and surrounding area clear, thus in turn stopping many accidents that could be caused from a restricted view.

4. Signal Flares

Although the patent for the signal flare didn’t belong to Martha Coston, she was the woman who dedicated around a decade of her life to make them happen. The ideas were not all hers however, they were that of her late husband, and she had found them in one of his notebooks. So although not completely her own, she was the individual who put the work in to create these flares.

3. The Dishwasher

Receiving the patent for the first ever dishwasher in 1886, Josephine Cochrane first thought of the idea when she realized that she needed something efficient to wash her china after many breakages were suffered at the hands of her servants. When they were first brought onto the market there weren’t many people that could afford them, only large hotels and restaurants, today however they are commonplace in many homes.

2. The Apgar Score

1952 was the first year that the Apgar score was used. Standing for; appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration, it is a test that is now used on all new born babies to determine whether or not they need medical attention straight away. Dr. Virginia Apgar was the woman who first started to use this series of tests, which has become a true life saver.

1. Monopoly

Receiving the patent for what was then called The Landlords Game in 1904, Elizabeth Magie is the woman that every family, who has ever enjoyed a game of monopoly, should thank. Providing hours of fun and sometimes a few disagreements, this classic game that now has so many variations has been a game enjoyed by past generations and undoubtedly future generations will as well.

circular saw?!!
that escalated pretty fast.

 

[T-123456]

Jealousy invented by women.

 

[Levina]

Jealousy invented by women.

I did not want to fuel this discussion further but your answer got me back on this thread.
How do you think a personality trait is "invented"????
Btw jealousy is something hardwired into men....
He has a better bike/car than me...ignore him.
He has better looking GF than me... Spread rumors about him.
His country has more nuclear weapons....attack him.
And theres a long list...

 

[Dem!god]

I did not want to fuel this discussion further but your answer got me back on this thread.
How do you think a personality trait is "invented"????
Btw jealousy is something hardwired into men....
He has a better bike/car than me...ignore him.
He has better looking GF than me... Spread rumors about him.
His country has more nuclear weapons....attack him.
And theres a long list...

jealousy hardwired into men....I don't think so.....
most of the men are generous and sharing........
unless and until a women came in scene.......its always the women who sow the seed of jealousy among men....
nukes..missile...grrrr....it's not about attacking....it's more about having some cool toys....
I haven't even started the women s part...

 

[Sugarcane]

WTF is going on in my thread

 

[bornmoron]

A woman was out golfing one day when she hit her ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.

The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you 3 wishes."

The woman freed the frog. The frog said, "Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes -- that whatever you wish for, your husband will get 10 times more or better!"

The woman said, "That would be okay." For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

The frog warned her, "You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis, that women will flock to." The woman replied, "That will be okay because I will be the most beautiful woman and he will only have eyes for me."

So, KAZAM - she's the most beautiful woman in the world! For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world. The frog said, "That will make your husband he richest man in the world and he will be ten times richer than you."

The woman said, "That will be okay because what's mine is his and what's his is mine." So, KAZAM she's the richest woman in the world.

The frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack."

 

[StarCraft_ZT2]

Inventions no difference by men or women

 

[Dubious]

WTF is going on in my thread

Male ego is going into full spasm just coz you posted 10 of the things women have invented....

The following is a partial list of the many ingenious inventions by women.

INVENTIONINVENTORYEAR
Alphabet blocksAdeline D. T. Whitney1882
Apgar tests, which evaluate a baby’s health upon birthVirginia Apgar1952
Chocolate-chip cookiesRuth Wakefield1930
Circular sawTabitha Babbitt1812
DishwasherJosephine Cochran1872
Disposable diaperMarion Donovan1950
Electric hot water heaterIda Forbes1917
Elevated railwayMary Walton1881
Engine mufflerEl Dorado Jones1917
Fire escapeAnna Connelly1887
GlobesEllen Fitz1875
Ironing boardSarah Boone1892
Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vestsStephanie Kwolek1966
Life raftMaria Beaseley1882
Liquid Paper®, a quick-drying liquid used to correct mistakes printed on paperBessie Nesmith1951
Locomotive chimneyMary Walton1879
Medical syringeLetitia Geer1899
Paper-bag-making machineMargaret Knight1871
Rolling pinCatherine Deiner1891
Rotary engineMargaret Knight1904
Scotchgard™ fabric protectorPatsy O. Sherman1956
Snugli® baby carrierAnn Moore1965
Street-cleaning machineFlorence Parpart1900
Submarine lamp and telescopeSarah Mather1845
Windshield wiperMary Anderson1903



Mystery Inventors
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.

So basically women inventions only got recognized after 1800 while inventions by men started way before...

 

[Sugarcane]

and she answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack."

Are you female? because last line of the joke was for men


The husband got 10x milder heart attack

 

[Dubious]

The Solar-Heated Home

Hungary native Dr. Maria Telkes is responsible for the invention of the first home solar-heating system. She moved to the U.S. in 1925 and worked at MIT on the university's Solar Energy Research Project. In the 1940s, she developed the first solar-heated home with architect Eleanor Raymond.

(from another website) THE SOLAR HOUSE
Biophysicist Maria Telkes's place was in the house—the very first 100 percent solar house. In 1947, the Hungarian scientist invented the thermoelectric power generator to provide heat for Dover House, a wedge-shaped structure she conceived with architect Eleanor Raymond. Telkes used Glauber’s salt, the sodium salt of sulfuric acid, to store heat in preparation of sunless days. Dover House survived nearly three Massachusetts winters before the system failed.



Beer

We don't actually know the individual who first created beer, but according to research conducted by historian Jane Peyton, for thousands of years brewing beer was a woman's domain. According a 2010 Telegraph piece: "Nearly 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Sumeria, so important were [women's] skills that they were the only ones allowed to brew the drink or run any taverns." Beer was even considered a gift from the goddess. Maybe marketers should think about that next time they decide to make a terribly sexist beer ad.


The Fire Escape

The first outdoor fire escape with an external staircase was patented by Anna Connelly in 1897. In the 1900s, Connelly's model would become part of many mandatory building safety codes across the United States.

8 Awesome Things You Probably Didn't Know Were Invented By Women

SUBMARINE TELESCOPE AND LAMP
It's difficult to find any in-depth information about early inventor Sarah Mather. Her combination telescope and lamp for submarines, patented in 1845, speaks for itself.

SCOTCHGUARD
Apparently, it takes a stain to fight one. In 1952, 3M chemist Patsy Sherman was perplexed when some fluorochemical rubber spilled on a lab assistant's shoe and wouldn't come off. Without changing the color of the shoe, the stain repelled water, oil, and other liquids. Sherman and her co-inventor Samuel Smith called it Scotchguard. And the rest is ... preserving your couch.

INVISIBLE GLASS
Katharine Blodgett, General Electric's first female scientist, discovered a way to transfer thin monomolecular coatings to glass and metals in 1935. The result: glass that eliminated glare and distortion. It clearly revolutionized cameras, microscopes, eyeglasses, and more.

COMPUTERS
Women in computer science have a role model in Grace Hopper. She and Howard Aiken designed Harvard's Mark I computer, a five-ton, room-sized machine in 1944. Hopper invented the compiler that translated written language into computer code and coined the terms "bug" and "debugging" when she had to remove moths from the device. In 1959, Hopper was part of the team that developed COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages.

(different website) 1952 Grace Hopper was credited with devising the first compiler, a program that translates instructions for a computer from English to machine language.

 

[Dubious]

1843Ada Augusta Lovelace, laid some of the early conceptual and technical groundwork for high technology by helping develop an early computer.


October 15 is Ada Lovelace Day, named for the world's first computer programmer and dedicated to promoting women in STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math. A Victorian-era mathematical genius, Lovelace was the first to describe how computing machines could solve math problems, write new forms of music, and much more, if you gave them instructions in a language they could understand. Of course, over the ensuing 100-plus years, dudes have been lining up to push her out of the picture (more on that below).

Lovelace is hardly the only woman to be erased from the history of her own work. Here's a quick look at eight women whose breakthroughs were marginalized by their peers.

(This isn't a complete list, by tragically epic degrees. Please use the comments section to rail about everyone we missed.)

The daughter of Lord Byron, Lovelace was steered toward math by her mother, who feared her daughter would follow in her father’s "mad, bad, and dangerous" literary footsteps. Luckily, she loved the subject, and remained devoted throughout her brief life—she died in 1852 at age 36, soon after an ambitious, proto-Moneyball attempt to beat the odds at horse racing by developing mathematical models to help place her bets.

When she was barely 20, she started collaborating with the inventor Charles Babbage at the University of London on his "Analytical Engine," an early model of a computer. In 1843, she added extensive notes of her own to a paper on Babbage's machine, detailing how the Engine could be fed step-by-step instructions to do complicated math, and trained to work not only with numbers but also words and symbols "to compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."

The notes are considered the first descriptions of what we now call algorithms and computer programming, and for decades, historians have argued over whether Lovelace came up with them herself, or Babbage was somehow the real author. "Ada was as mad as a hatter, and contributed little more to the 'Notes' than trouble," writes one historian, and a "manic depressive with the most amazing delusions about her own talents." But Babbage's own memoir suggests she deserved credit for the "the algebraic working out of the different problems," and more recently she's been honored with, among other things, a British medal of honor, a Google Doodle, a tunnel boring machine in London, and her own annual celebration. In 2011, the Ada Initiative was founded to help promote women in computer science and open-source technology.


Rosalind Franklin, discovery of the DNA double helix: Watson and Crick's famed article in Nature on the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure, which would win them a Nobel Prize, buries a mention of Rosalind Franklin's role in the footnotes. But Franklin, a British biophysicist who had honed a technique to closely observe molecules using X-ray diffraction, was the first to capture a photographic image of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, known as Photo 51. An estranged male colleague of Franklin's at King's College showed her photograph to competitors Watson and Crick, without her permission. Photo 51 became crucial in shaping their thesis, but it would take Watson 40 years to admit this publicly. Franklin, known as the "dark lady of DNA," shifted her focus to the study of RNA, and made important strides before her death from cancer in 1958, four years before Watson and Crick received the Nobel.

Margaret Knight, paper bag machine: The paper bag machine, which is exactly what it sounds like, doesn't get as much love as the nuclear fission or the computer, and it probably shouldn't—it's a convenient but hardly breathtaking way to carry sandwiches. But Knight's invention, in 1868, is notable for the fight she went through to get credit. Her patent designs were quickly stolen by a man, who sought to have the patent issued in his name by arguing that a woman was incapable of such a breakthrough. It took three years, but Knight eventually won the case in court.

Judy Malloy, hypertext fiction: A self-taught computer programmer, conceptual artist, and single mom working at a tech company in the early days of Silicon Valley, Malloy self-published a short story called Uncle Roger in 1986. It's a wry take on California tech culture through the eyes of an eccentric computer chip salesman, and at the time, the experience of reading Uncle Roger was totally new. It lived online (and still does), and the reader clicked through fragments of the story in whatever order they chose, twisting and reshaping the narrative along the way. Malloy created an elaborate new database system to tell her story, with 32 UNIX shells and a sophisticated search engine for its time. But in 1992, a New York Timesbook critic crowned the young novelist Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story as the "granddaddy of full-length hypertext fictions," though Uncle Roger came first and Malloy's piece was acclaimed by the emerging digital art community as the earliest notable example of the form.

Lise Meitner, nuclear fission: A student of Max Plank and the first German woman to hold a professorship at a German university, Meitner was forced to flee the country because of her Jewish ancestry. But she continued corresponding with her research partner, Otto Hahn, from Scandinavia, and in 1938 they first articulated the idea of nuclear fission, which five years later would give rise to the atomic bomb. But Hahn left her name off his landmark paper, and when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized the breakthrough in 1944, they gave the prize in chemistry to Hahn. Meitner eventually earned a more exclusive honor, though; in 1994 she was honored with an element—meitnerium, or Mt on the Periodic Table.

Candace Pert, opioid receptor: When Pert, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins, protested that her professor, Dr. Solomon Snyder, had received an award for her discovery of the receptor allows opiates to lock into the brain, Snyder's response was curt: "That's how the game is played." Pert protested in a formal letter to the award committee ("As a graduate student who played a key role in initiating the research and following it up") and then, having thoroughly revolutionized neuroscience, got back to work. She was working toward a more effective treatment of Alzheimer's when she died in September.

Martha Coston, signal flares: Coston was officially listed as "administratix" on the 1961 patent that revolutionized communication between US Navy vessels. Official credit for the invention went to her husband, Benjamin Franklin Coston—never mind that he had been dead for the 10 years she had worked with pyrotechnic engineers to turn his idea into a reality. (She received a patent in her own name, 12 years later, for a modified system.)

 

[Dubious]

1965 Stephanie Kwolek invented one of the modern world's most readily recognized and widely used materials: Kevlar. Her name appears on 16 patents; she is sole patent holder on seven.

1991 Naomi Nakao, is a practicing gastroenterologist, founder of Granit Medical Innovations in 1989 and inventor of the Nakao Snare in 1991. She has 54 patents or patent pending in her name

2002 Under Helen Greiner's leadership, iRobot Corporation is delivering robots into the industrial, consumer, academic, and military markets. In 2002, the ROOMBA robot vacuum was introduced to the consumer products marketplace.


Rose Totino – Frozen Pizza

From standard cheese and pepperoni to fancy Mediterranean with artichoke hearts, frozen pizza has become a huge industry. More than 700 million frozen pizzas are sold each year, with annual sales topping 2 billion (AIB International), I think we can all agree that Rose’s invention has been a great success.

Melitta Bentz – Drip Coffee Filter

Anyone who is a coffee drinker can tell you how unpleasant it is to get to the end of a coffee only to gulp down the grind filled dregs at the bottom of the cup. This experience is a rarity because for millions of people every morning, their coffee is filtered through a cone of paper that Melitta invented, which prevents the bitter grounds ending in your cup.

Florence Parpart – Refrigerator

Without Florence’s invention we would have to go back to a time where daily house deliveries of ice we needed to “power” the refrigerator. Either that, or do without most of your favorite foods.