FAMOUS FEMALE Inventors
by Kevin Southern, Resident Advisor of University
at Buffalo
This is a compilation of Inventions made by
Women throughout history. It’s a great source of
diversity and it lets people know how much women
have contributed to civilization throughout the
years.
This idea came as I came to the conclusion that
women weren’t recognized much during
programming and bulletin boards. We have black
history month (in which I am African American)
but where does the women who contributed much to
society get their recognition.
Ada Augusta
Lovelace - laid
some of the early
conceptual and
technical
groundwork for
high technology by
helping develop an
early computer.
Marie Curie was
the first female
recipient of a
Nobel Prize, for
the discovery of
radioactive
elements.
Mary Anderson
was awarded a
patent in 1903 for
a window cleaning
device, a
forerunner to the
windshield wiper.
Lizzie Magie
invents a game
called The
Landlords Game
a forerunner of
the Monopoly
game.
Marion
Donovan sold
her
disposable
diaper
invention for
about $1
million "in
order to
devote more
time to developing other inventions".
Grace Hopper
was credited
with devising the
first compiler, a
program that
translates
instructions for
a computer from
English to
machine
language.
Ruth Handler
invented an
anatomically
improbable molded
plastic statuette
named Barbie.
Since its debut in
1959, the Barbie
doll has become an
American icon that
functions as both a steady outlet for
girls' dreams and an ever changing
reflection of American society.
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.
Naomi Nakao is a
practicing
astroenterologist,
founder of Granit
Medical Innovations
in 1989 and inventor
of the Nakao Snare
in 1991. She has 54
patents or patents
pending in her name.
One Saturday
morning in
1993, when she
was eight years old, Abigail M. Fleck
and her father, Jonathan were cooking
bacon in their St. Paul, Minnesota home.
Inspired by an offhand comment from her
father,. Abbey Fleck invented a new,
quicker and healthier way to cook
Bacon, and then founded a company to
sell her product, The Makin' Bacon.
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