Things Invented By Women. After joining the US Navy during the Second World War Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. A black women. Walker self-made millionaire invented the first beauty products designed specifically for black women. In honor of International Womens Day 2019 INSIDER rounded up 15 inventions by women that you may not know about.
In honor of International Womens Day 2019 INSIDER rounded up 15 inventions by women that you may not know about. Caller ID and call waiting - Dr Shirley Ann Jackson. Historians refused to believe that Ada Lovelace invented an early model of the computer. America got a brand new paper bag when cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented a machine to make. Kevlar In the 1960s famous chemist and pioneer for women in science Stephanie Kwolek invented a lightweight but extremely strong substance named Kevlar. Lightweight high-tensile Kevlarfive times stronger than steelwill take a bullet for you.
It was an unexpected discovery while she was working on improvements to car tires.
Knight received 27 patents in her lifetime for inventions including shoe-manufacturing machines a dress shield to protect garments from perspiration stains a rotary engine and an internal combustion engine. In 1880 an African-American woman named Ellen Elgin invented the clothes wringer. For ages before the advent of the refrigerator iceboxes were the. Shirley Ann Jacksons breakthroughs in telecommunications research led to the invention of caller ID and call waiting. Dr Shirley Ann Jackson is. Kevlar is an extraordinary material.