Can any one name...?

Question

At least 5 things INVENTED (not discovered) by women that have had a cultural impact on history, like the radio or refrigerator has?

Answer 1

Dishwasher - Josephine Cochran - 1872

Disposable diaper - Marion Donovan - 1950

Engine muffler - El Dorado Jones - 1917

Kevlar - Stephanie Kwolek - 1966

Medical syringe - Letitia Geer - 1899

Answer 2

Lets not forget all those male inventors were raised by there mothers.



Battery container Nancy Perkins 1986

Beehive Thiphena Hornbrook 1861

Canister vacuum Nancy Perkins 1987

Car heater Margaret Wilcox 1893

Circular saw Tabitha Babbit 1812

Computer program Augusta Ada Byron 1842

Cooking stove Elizabeth Hawk 1867

Dam and reservoir construction Harriet Strong 1887

Direct and return mailing envelope Beulah Henry 1962

Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872

Drinking fountain device Laurene O'Donnell 1985

Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917

Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881

Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917

Feedback control for data processing Erna Hoover 1971

Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887

Globes Ellen Fitz 1875

Grain storage bin Lizzie Dickelman 1920

Improved locomotive wheels Mary Jane Montgomery 1864

Improvement in dredging machines Emily Tassey 1876

Improvement in stone pavements Emily Gross 1877

Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966

Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882

Liquid Paper correction fluid Bette Nesmith Graham 1956

Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879

Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899

Mop-wringer pail Eliza Wood 1889

Oil burner Amanda Jones 1880

Permanent wave for the hair Marjorie Joyner 1928

Portable screen summer house Nettie Rood 1882

Refrigerator Florence Parpart 1914

Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891

Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1904

Safety device for elevators Harriet Tracy 1892

Street cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900

Submarine lamp and telescope Sara Mather 1870

Suspenders Laura Cooney 1896

Washing machine Margaret Colvin 1871

Windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903

Zigzag sewing machine Helen Blanchard 1873

Answer 3

Wow...some awesome answers. I just want to add this woman who invented the "illusion transmitter," a machine to convert two dimensional images into 3D. This technology will likely be used in the hear future to transmit information. Her name is Valerie Thomas. Also a Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood, has invented a pen that can transmit a signature from one geographic location to another geographic location. It will have endless applications.



Oh, and just so you know, the home computer is here in large part because of women. Women have smaller fingers, and can manipulate computer pieces more easily than can men; therefore, in the intial stages of computer development, women dominated the field with Ada Lovelace as the co-inventor of the modern day computer. There are a lot of inventions by women and, as someone mentioned, problems with recognition of the contributions women have made to projects. An example is the double helix structure of DNA...which definitely effects everyone. Two men received nobel prizes, she was ignored. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, I'm saying that women's accomplishments have historically tended to be either dismissed or claimed by others. Interesting question, whether or not you intended it to be.



EDIT: Oh, and I remember a book I read a while ago called "Mothers of Invention." It's quite good.

Answer 4

Dishwasher, fire escape, circular saw. Medical syringe. Kevlar. Life raft. Engine muffler. And Hedy Lamarr invented a nifty frequency hopper thing that eventually allowed for cordless phones and WiFi.



So, what was your point? That women suck at inventing? Obviously, that's not true. In fact, what's truly amazing is how many women were going against all the conventions of their day in order to gain an education and invent cool new stuff. I mean, you wouldn't even take the discoveries made by women, I guess because even you know about Marie Curie. Believe me, sir, if you had even half the difficulties that many of these women had, you'd get nowhere near science.



I'm sorry if you did mean it sincerely. There have been a lot of trolls on here lately that are all about trying to "prove" women are idiotic. I shouldn't let them get to me, and I shouldn't assume people are being jerks. Sorry again.

Answer 5

1. Life raft Maria Beasley 1882

2. Liquid paper Bessie Mesmith 1951

3. Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899

4.windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903

and finally Number five, a Rolling Pin invented by

Catherine Deimer in 1891, in order to hit you in the head

with! Later Dude!

Answer 6

Katherine Blodgett

Invented the non-reflecting glass.



Josephine Garis Cochran

In 1886, Josephine Cochran invented the first practical dishwasher.



Marie Curie

Marie Curie also known as Madame Curie discovered radium and furthered x-ray technology.



Marion Donovan

The convenient disposable diaper was invented by New Yorker Marion Donovan in 1950.



Edith Flanigen

Flanigen was the inventor of a petroleum refining method and is considered one of the most inventive chemists of all time.



Helen Free

Free was the inventor of the home diabetes test.



Bette Nesmith Graham

Graham invented liquid paper, also known as White-Out™.



Ruth Handler

The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler.



Erna Schneider Hoover

Hoover invented the computerized telephone switching system.



Mary Phelps Jacob

Mary Phelps Jacob invented the bra.

Answer 7

The Medical syringe: invented by Letita Geer (1899)

The Rotary Engine: invented by Margaret Knight (1904)

The Street-Cleaning Machine: invented by Florence Parpart (1900)

The Windsheild Wiper: Invented by Mary Anderson (1903)

Kevlar: invented by Stephanie Kwolek (1966)

The Life Raft: Invented by Maria Beaseley (1882)

The Circular Saw: Invented by Tabitha Babbitt (1812)

The Fire Escape: Invented by Anna Connelly (1887)

The Globe: Invented by Ellen Fitz (1875)

Answer 8

I compiled this list from the two sources below. Hope this helps! :)



1871 Martha Coston, signal flares

1873 Maria L. Ghirardini, rails for street railways

1886 Josephine Cochran, dishwashing machine

1887 Anna Connelly, fire escape

1887 Hannah Harger, screen door

1892 Sarah Boone, ironing board

1898 Lyda Newman, first modern vented hair brush

1899 Letitia Geer, medical syringes

1900's Lillian Moller Gilbreth, electric food mixer, shelves inside refrigerator doors, trash can with foot-pedal opener, and the mother of Ergonomics.

1902 Mary Anderson, windshield wiper

1912 Carrie B. Averill, baby carrier

1913 Mary Phelps Jacob, first modern bra

1917 El Dorado Jones, exhaust attachment for gas engines

1927 Anna Keichline, the K-Brick (Pecursor to the modern concrete block. A hollow fireproof clay brick that was cheaper and lighter than any other building brick to that date. The K Brick could be filled with insulating or soundproof material and was designed for hollow wall construction.)

1930 Ruth Wakefield, chocolate chip cookie

1938 Katherine Blodgett, first 100% transparent glass

1947 Helen Free, home Diabetes blood test

1951 Bessie Blount, feeding tube for paraplegics

1953 Gertrude Elion, drug for treating leukemia and kidney transplant rejection

1956 Patsy O. Sherman, Scotchgard

1956 Edith Flanigen, molecular sieves (Crystalline structures that contain molecule-sized pores. The compounds with their tiny pore sizes can be used to filter and break down crude oil during the refining process. Her molecular sieves have made gasoline production more efficient, cleaner, and safer worldwide.)

1957 Rachel Fuller Brown, antibiotic Nystatin

1957 Bette Nesmith Graham, Liquid Paper

1959 Evelyn Berezin, data processing system

1971, Erna Schneider Hoover, computerized telephone switching system

1971 Ema S. Hoover, feedback control monitor for stored program data processing system

1989 Diane Croteau, CPR mannequin

1999 Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul, disposable cell phone

Answer 9

Since I've worked quite a bit with computers, Grace Hopper revolutionalized the computer field with a number of her inventions:



1a) Hopper developed a computer program called a compiler. A compiler was software that could translate a whole set of programmer's instructions into binary language.



1b) Another Hopper invention was the Flow-Matic program. Compliers and the Flow-Matic greatly influenced the development of the computer language COBOL. It is now commonly believed that without Hopper's contribution COBOL would not have developed as it did, and computer language applications to the world of business would have not as evolved as elegantly.



1c) Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University. The MARK series of computers began with the Mark I in 1944. Imagine a giant roomful of noisy, clicking metal parts, 55 feet long and 8 feet high. The 5-ton device contained almost 760,000 separate pieces. Used by the US Navy for gunnery and ballistic calculations, the Mark I was in operation until 1959.



fyi: One of Hopper's more curious contributions to the computer was the moniker "bug". During work on the Mark II computer, Hopper became aware that the machine was yielding erroneous results. On examining the inner workings of the computer a moth was found, dead, near a relay. The moniker "bug" and "debugging" stuck from that day forward-it was to be a bit of trivia that Hopper preferred to live down.



Some of Hopper's more innovative ideas include using computers to track the lifecycle of crop eating locusts, building a weather computer, managing water reserves so that everyone would have a fair share and tracking the waves at the bottom of the ocean. She also thought every ship should have a computer that the crew could play with and learn to use.



How were her inventions treated at times during her career?

It is not surprising that during her brilliant career Hopper would encounter a great tide of cynicism about the value of her compilers, and male chauvinism to a woman's participation in the field of computer science. Hopper was a great believer in raising the standards of the computer industry and the quality of information that computers were destined to handle. When Grace Hopper was asked about the computer and its relationship to information and knowledge she remarked, "A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."



Other women inventors in Technology:



2) Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace (1815-1852) When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." A software language developed by the U.S. Department of Defense was named "Ada" in her honor in 1979.



3) Erna Schneider: In 1954, after teaching for a number of years at Swarthmore College, she began a research career at Bell Laboratories. While there, she invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic, to replace existing hard-wired, mechanical switching equipment. For this ground-breaking achievement -- the principles of which are still used today -- she was awarded one of the first software patents ever issued (Patent #3,623,007, Nov. 23, 1971) . At Bell Labs, she became the first female supervisor of a technical department.



4) Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939) is a prominent computer scientist Barbara Liskov has led many significant projects, including the design and implementation of CLU, the first programming language to support data abstraction, Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs, and Thor, an object-oriented database system.



5) Sandra Kurtzig of Atherton, California (b. 1947) has invented monitoring and information-sharing software for businesses. The company she founded with $2000 in 1972, ASK Computer, now does over $100 million in annual sales. Kurtzig herself has been called one of the "heroes of Silicon Valley."

Answer 10

Historians are beginning to untangle the cultural distortions related to female inventors. Because women could not until relatively recently file patents nor had the money for R&D, their inventions were credited to their husbands, usually. For example, Einstein's wife, Mileva, collaborated fully on Einstein's work, yet, her contributions and/or primary genius related to their mutual theories were disregarded. Here is an excellent paper related to this component of the history of inventions:

http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/womeninventors.html



Refridgerator, fire escapes, elevated railways, Kevlar, medical syringe, rotory engine, electric water heater, oil burner, cooking stove, circular saw, life rafts, etc.

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768070.html

Answer 11

okay....



Mary Anderson- invented windshield wipers



Ellen Fitz- invented the globe



Anna Connelly- invented the fire escape



Josephine Cochran- the Dishwasher



...and Marion Donovan- the disposable diaper

Answer 12

Try this link - or for the ignoramuses who have to ask questions like this:



http://Inventors.about.com/od/womeninventors.Women_Inventors.htm



- click on 'Women Inventors' and take your choice of a few hundred, Bonzo.

Answer 13

If you really want to learn something follow the link and explore:



http://inventors.about.com/library/blwomeninventors.htm

Answer 14

You'll never learn if you dont do your own homework little boy

Answer 15

rampant rabbit!!!! but I dont know who designed that wabbit.

Answer 16

I can only think of one... a h*rd*n?

Answer 17

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