The inventors and their inventions are always interesting, but even more interesting is all the invention stuff made by females in traditionally male fields. Welcome to the top of inventions made by women!
1. Marie Curie – world-known women scientist, specializes in such fields as chemistry and physics. Best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes.
2. Bette Nesmith Graham – she invented liquid paper, originally called “mistake out”, a substance used to cover up mistakes made on paper.
3. Mary Anderson – she invented window cleaning device for cars, nowadays known as windscreen wiper.
4. Stephanie Kwolek– inventor and scientist, mother of Kevlar – synthetic steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests.
5. Grace Murray Hopper- intruded into the sphere occupied by males – programming. She is inventor of COBOL programming language.
6. Ruth Wakefield – she is responsible for the birth of chocolate chip cookies.
7. Lillian Moller Gilbreth– the queen of ergonomics. We can thank her for trash can with a foot-pedal, electric food mixer, shelves inside refrigerator doors and other kitchen improvements.
8. Martha Coston -she invented a pyrotechnic signaling system, nowadays known as maritime signal flares.
9. Ruth Handler – inventor of the Barbie doll. The doll was intended to be a teenage fashion doll.
10. Josephine Cochran - Inventor of the Dishwasher. Once she said: “If nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I’ll do it myself”. And… heureka! She invented it!
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