Women inventors everyone should know about
Stephanie Kwolek:
While working as a chemist at DuPont’s Buffalo, New York, facility in the 1960s, Stephanie Kwolek was researching polymers, says Edmonds.
Katharine Blodgett:
Katharine Blodgett was the first woman to receive a PhD in physics at England’s Cambridge University.
Patricia Bath:
Patricia Bath is an American ophthalmologist who has given the gift of sight to many with her invention.
Yvonne C. Brill:
Yvonne C. Brill was a Canadian-American aerospace engineer rocket scientist, according to Fourtané.
Melitta Bentz:
Made by steeping a cloth bag of coffee grounds in a pot of boiling water, coffee was thick with grounds.
Hedy Lamarr:
This Austrian-born American film actress was also an inventor during World War II.
Grace Hopper:
In 1943, Admiral Grace Hopper joined the military and was stationed at Harvard University, where she worked on IBM’s Harvard Mark I computer.
Bette Nesmith Graham:
Like all secretaries in the 1950s, Bette Graham had to retype an entire page on her typewriter if she made a mistake.
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson:
This woman inventor is an American theoretical physicist. Her research from the 1970s is behind many modern-day telecommunications technologies.