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what inventions did women invent that we still use today?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    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.

    1971 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.

    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 Tuttler 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.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    a lot, from A to Z:

    Astrolabe

    Automatic Dishwasher

    Barbie® Doll

    Buffered Aspirin

    COBOL

    Cotton Gin

    Disposable Phone

    Drip Coffeemaker

    Fabric Softener Sheets

    Hang Glider

    IV Fluids

    Jell-O®

    Kevlar®

    Mars Rover

    Nystatin

    PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)

    Protease Inhibitors

    Rolfing

    Smallpox Variolation

    Space Suit

    **** & Span®

    Tract Housing

    Vacuum Canning

    Windshield Wipers

    Zig-Zag Sewing Machine

    Zovirax®

  • Aurora
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    2 decades ago

    Molecular genetics: studies in roentgen crystallography a key for discovering DNA (Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)). The theory was stolen by Kirk, Wilson and Wilkins who achieved the Nobel Prize 1962

    Nuclear physics: atomic fission energy discovered by Lisa Meitner (1878-1968). Invention was used in creating the nuclear bomb. However, her friend and collaborator Otto Han was awarded…

    Theory of relativity: there are several discussions about the contribution of Mileva Maric Einstein to this theory. According to some, she was the only author, according to another, Albert and her invented it together.

    Psychoanalysis: the very method of talking and giving free assotiations was initiated by Bertha Papenheim

  • xerox machines among many others, possibley velcro.

    Barbie didn't come from a woman's mind but started in Germany as an x-rated toy...get the picture. Microwave ovens and laser printers i believe were invented by women.

    Many toys were invented by women, and mainly mothers. Much school equipment as well.

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  • 2 decades ago

    The woman didn't invent the Barbie doll a man did lol

  • 2 decades ago

    It had to be a woman's invention for the absorbent material or pads for our monthlys.

  • 2 decades ago

    Chatting n Gossiping

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I JUST USED SOME ON A PIECE OF PAPER I GOOFED ON:

    LIQUID WHITE OUT.

  • 2 decades ago

    Love and care.

  • 2 decades ago

    xray

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