Ada Augusta Lovelace - laid some of the early conceptual ...



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

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

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functions as both a steady outlet for girls' dreams and an ever changing reflection of American society.

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