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Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy. Wrinkle-free fiber. Wrinkle-free fiber invented by Ruth R. Benerito The invention was said to have "saved the cotton industry".
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [ 1 ] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [ 1 ]
Early life and education. Autumn Joy Stanley was born in Vinton County, Ohio, on December 21, 1933. She attended Transylvania College (now Transylvania University) and graduated in 1955 with a bachelor's degree. She then pursued a master's degree in English and American Literature from Stanford University, which she received in 1967.
Occupation (s) Inventor, businesswoman. Beulah Louise Henry (September 28, 1887 – February 01, 1973) was an American inventor whose extensive contributions to consumer products and manufacturing technology solidified her legacy in the field. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and later based in New York City, Henry was a pioneering figure who ...
Margaret E. Knight was born in York, Maine on February 14, 1838, to Hannah Teal and James Knight. [4] As a little girl, “Mattie,” as her parents and friends nicknamed her, preferred to play with woodworking tools instead of dolls, stating that “the only things [she] wanted were a jack knife, a gimlet, and pieces of wood.” [5] She was known as a child for her kites and sleds.
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (/ ˈkwoʊlɛk /; July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist best known for inventing Kevlar (poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide). Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. [1][2] For her discovery, Kwolek was awarded the DuPont company's Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical ...
Sarah E. Goode was the fourth African American woman known to have received a US patent. The first and second were Martha Jones of Amelia County, Virginia, for her 1868 corn-husker upgrade [23] and Mary Jones De Leon of Baltimore, Maryland, for her 1873 cooking apparatus. [24][25] Judy W. Reed’s dough roller was the third, patented in 1884 ...
Patricia Bath. Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center.