have there been any significant inventions by women,technologically or any other?

Question

cant think of any myself

Answer 1

Here is a whole list for you.

Answer 2

Even if you can't think you could do a Google search. Here are some of the more famous ones.

Before 1600
Hypatia (370-415)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

1600-1800
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)

1800-1900
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
Ellen Richards (1842-1911)
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)
Florence Sabin (1871-1953)
Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
Karen Horney (1885-1952)

1900-present
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Myra Adele Logan (1908-1977)
Joy Adamson (1910-1980)
Chien Shiung Wu (1912-1997)
Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
Dixie Lee Ray (1914-1994)
Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926- )
Jane Goodall (1934- )
Antonia Novello (1944- )

Answer 3

Women Nobel Prize winners -

Physics: 1903 Marie Sklodowska Curie
1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer


Chemistry: 1911 Marie Sklodowska Curie
1935 Irene Joliot-Curie
1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin


Physiology & Medicine: 1947 Gerty Radnitz Cori
1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1983 Barbara McClintock
1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 Gertrude Elion
1995 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
2004 Linda B. Buck

That do you! Go to the link to find out what they did.

Answer 4

Yeah sure! The only one I can think of is the dish washing machine. This was invented by Josephine CochranIn 1886. An American lady.

She came up with a basic machine, an industrial machine, with a conveyor belt inside. Dirty dishes were loaded at one end and slowly passed along the conveyor belt where they were squirted with soap/detergent then hot pressurised steam and more hot/hot water then a final cold spray.

The dishes had to be dried by hand, but it speeded up the process and kept her diner happy with fresh plates and dishes and no waiting etc.

Sorry do not know the name of the lady.

There have got to be other great inventions by women. But since women were usually kept out of the science departments, it would seem likely that any such would have come up with ideas at home and not in the laboratory.

It's that glass ceiling thing again!!

Here's what I've found so far : -

Dishwasher - Josephine CochranIn 1886, Josephine Cochran invented the dishwasher in Shelbyville, Illinois. ... nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I'll do it myself. ...
http://www.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldishwasher.htm

Josephine Garis Cochrane - Inventor of the DishwasherHer Garis Cochrane Dish-Washing Machine was the hit of the 1893 World's Columbian ... Dishwasher Inventor Dishwasher Inventor Josephine Cochrane's Home.
http://www.ecolitgy.com/it/josephine.html

Dishwasher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia She never washed dishes herself and only invented the dishwasher as her .... Glassware that is washed by dishwashing machines often develops a white haze on ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher

Your questions asked for female inventions and not discoveries. Discoveries are science based but inventions come in the brain - I have one nearly every day. Mostly useless crap, but hey!

Answer 5

Remember that not that long ago women were sent to prison for demanding the right to go to universities so they came late to the race for discoveries.

There's Marie Curie of course, who discovered radium and polonium and quoted the word radioactive, and got two Nobel prizes.
The whitener, used to correct typewriter errors, was invented by Bette C. Nesmith
The paper filter for coffee was invented by Melitta Benz
The name for the ADA computer language comes from Lady Ada Byron Lovelace, who wrote the first program ever.
Grace Hopper invented the first ever compiler
Rosalyn Yalow got the Nobel price for developping RIA with Solomon Berson, she also refused to have it patented, and she had started her working life as a secretary.

There's plenty more of them, few as well known as Marie Curie, but women inventions have the handicap that the gender is erased by the automatic assumption that discoveries are done by men. As well, being denied the right to the lofty realms of science for centuries, women turned instead their inventiveness to making life easier, so men could look down at them and pat them on the head with a hearty 'well done' and declare that nothing significant could be invented by women.

Answer 6

Women have been inventing since the beginning of time they are just not always recognized for their inventions. The life saving material of Kevlar was invented by Stephanie Kwoleck, Disposable Diapers, circular saw, and many others were invented by women..

Answer 7

A woman invented Liquid paper.It was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1951 and originally called Mistake Out. Her son, Mike Nesmith was in the Monkees.

Answer 8

Yeah there is a whole book about women inventors, most of them had to patent in their husbands names. A woman invented windshield wipers!!! And yes, Kevlar, as answered by another. I will look the book up and get back to you.

Answer 9

Not by women alone that I know of. Working with men, sometimes their husbands women have played a great part in some of the major discoveries of the last 100 years, including astronomy and medicines.

Answer 10

Aye that Curie lass invented radium, but didnt she succeed in catching radiation poisoning in the process? Not well thought out really was it?

Answer 11

Sure there have been...


Kevlar used in bullet proof vests and cut resistant gloves.... woman.

Ice cream freezere... woman

Actually, I had a good time looking this question up... didn't know the volume of women inventors myself.


Thanks fo asking.





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