Can anyone name 10 famous women inventors and their inventions?

Question

personally I cant think of one but surely with all the know it all woman out there one of them must of invented something lol

Answer 1

1. Randi Altschul - inventor of the world's first disposable cell phone

[ That's not wildly materialistic or anything. ]

2. Mary Anderson - invented the windshield wiper in 1905

[ Thought a clearer window would make her driving better. Was incorrect. ]

3. Virginia Apgar - invented the scoring system for scoring the health of newborn babies

[ Are "not killed in abortion" and "not infanticide victim", basically "I didn't kill it.. yet" on the list? ]

4. Katherine Blodgett - invented non-reflecting glass

[ Too ugly to look in mirrors. ]

5. Dianne Croteau- invented the CPR mannequin

[ Thus obsoleting herself in her marriage. ]

6. Bette Nesmith Graham - invented liquid paper/white out

[ Constantly changing her mind and making mistakes. ]

7. Ruth Handler - invented the Barbie doll

[ HAHAHAHA does this even count? And stop complaining that men want women to be barbies if a female invented them. ]

8. Ema Hoover - invented the telephone switching system

[ I'd give you this one because she was giving birth to her third child at the time, but the I'd have to withdraw it because modern women are only capable of signing a welfare form under the same circumstances. ]

9. Pasty Sherman - invented Scotchgard

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotchgard

The original formula for Scotchgard was discovered accidentally in 1952 by 3M chemists Patsy Sherman and Samuel Smith.

a) Accidentally.

b) We can safely assume it was invented by Samuel Smith, with Patsy just getting some credit to help boost her low self esteem. ]

10. Betty Rozier- invented the intravenous catheter shield

[ "A catheter is a flexible tube inserted into some part of the body that provides a channel for fluid passage or a medical device."

Talk about penis envy. ]

http://verlch.blogspot.com/

Twice as Many Men with IQ's @ 120 as Women...

Good discussion there.

Answer 2

Famous Women Inventors

Answer 3

Considering your mindset, you couldnt but I have a list for you here. And by the way there are thousands of female inventors, but once again....your thought trail precludes you from seeing beyond the end of your third leg.

1. Randi Altschul - inventor of the world's first disposable cell phone
2. Mary Anderson - invented the windshield wiper in 1905
3. Virginia Apgar - invented the scoring system for scoring the health of newborn babies
4. Katherine Blodgett - invented non-reflecting glass
5. Dianne Croteau- invented the CPR mannequin
6. Bette Nesmith Graham - invented liquid paper/white out
7. Ruth Handler - invented the Barbie doll
8. Ema Hoover - invented the telephone switching system
9. Pasty Sherman - invented Scotchgard
10. Betty Rozier- invented the intravenous catheter shield

Answer 4

Here you go:

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

1903 - 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 foreruuner to the windshield wiper.

1904 - Lizzie Magie invents a game called The Landlords Game a forerunner of the Monopoly game.

1946 - Marion Donovan sold her disposable diaper invention for about $1 million "in order to devote more time to developing other inventions".

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

1959 - 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.

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.

1993 - 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, then founded a company to sell her product, The Makin' BaconŒ.

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.

2006 - Jennifer Tuttle submitted a short essay to the Live Your Dream contest. Tuttle created a game, Multiplication Madness. In February, 2006 she was selected as the winner and won over $250,000 in cash, products and training for her effort.

HTH : )

Answer 5

Okay, I know this is going to turn into an argument about how women have never invented anything and haven't contributed to technology...

Please think about this logically for a minute: up until pretty recently, women and girls were not given an education like men have been for hundreds of years. Even if a woman in the past had a great idea, she would not be taken seriously, and would have no way to get any sort of funding or research help for her idea. Even today, women are shunned from going into math and science fields, because it is not feminine. Thankfully, the amount of women and men in medical school has evened out recently, and in the future we can expect many more medical breakthroughs and new technologies to come from women's ideas! I am in no way saying that women or men are better or smarter than eachother, I am just saying that when we have equal education, we will see equal amounts of discoveries and innovations from both.

Answer 6

MADONNA= inventor of re-invention

Answer 7

WOW! White-Out, catheter gizmos and CPR Dummies!!!

They sure put your butt in it's place. If Tesla or Marconi or Edison or John Logie Baird or Edwin Land were still around I bet they'd be ashamed to show their faces in public.

Especially with men having had nearly EXCLUSIVE access to schools and books and the patent office for time immemorial and all.

Answer 8

marie curie didnt invent a thing but a concept that atoms can be split although she isnt credited for it which is a blasphemy...

Answer 9

any of the below sites will have the answers you are looking for :-)

I was personally happily surprised be the number of female inventors!

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

http://www.women-inventors.com/

http://www.ideafinder.com/features/classact/women.htm