This is International Women’s Week, which is normally commemorated beginning the first Saturday of March and runs the whole week.
And on this week we at Classic105 have decided to compile a list of great inventors from the fairer s3x who have made a mark on history.
These women have contributed a whole lot in the progress we have made so far as a species and have shown their tenacity and forward-thinking with their wonderful inventions, that helped humanity move forward.
Let’s begin:
- The Circular Saw
It was invented by Tabitha Babbitt in 1812 after Babbitt watched people struggling to cut wood with a pit saw, which required two users. Tabitha decided to help and attached a circular blade to her spinning wheel and invented the efficient circular saw. - Central heating
It was invented by Alice Parker in 1919. While never used, it was the first that used natural gas, rather than wood, to heat a home. - Life raft
It was invented by Maria Beasley in 1882. This magnificent lady helped improve life raft design with guard rails. It was also fireproof and foldable for easy storage. Her life rafts were used on the Titanic and saved over 700 lives. - Globes
It was invented by Ellen Fitz in 1875. The Canadian tutor designed a globe mount that could display the earth’s daily rotation in relation to the path of the sun not only by day and night but also throughout the year. - Fire escape
It was invented by Anna Connelly in 1887. Before she invented her external metal staircase(very first fire escape), Tenement fires were a serious problem. - Wireless transmission technology
It was invented by Hedy Lamarr in 1941. Lamarr who was also a movie star, created a frequency-hopping communication system that could guide torpedos without being detected. WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth owe a lot to the work that she did. - Thermoelectric power generator
It was invented by Maria Telkes in 1947 - Medical syringe
It was invented by Letitia Geer in 1899. Years before her invention of a one-handed syringe, medical professionals had been using syringes that required both hands to administer injections. - Electric refrigerator
It was invented by Florence Parpart in 1914. The lady patented an electric refrigerator that she successfully marketed and improved upon for years. - The Aquarium
It was invented by Jeanne Villepreux-Power in 1832. The French naturalist, Villepreux-Power was trying to prove that the paper nautilus does not take discarded shells but rather grows its own shell.
To achieve this purpose she had to create her own glass aquarium. Talk about focus. - Ice cream maker
It was invented by Nancy Johnson in 1843. These lady is a heroine for many ice-cream lovers as her double-cylinder hand-crank machine could create two flavours that could be frozen at the same time but separately. - Computer algorithm
It was invented by Ada Lovelace in 1843. She did this while translating the notes of mathematics professor Charles Babbage for his theoretical invention called the analytical engine.
Lovelace added her own notes, tripling the original text, and is credited with writing the world’s first computer algorithm. - Low-reflection glass
It was invented by Katharine Blodgett in 1935. Her invention has proven indispensable in the making of camera lenses, microscopes and eyeglasses. - Disposable diaper
It was invented by Marion Donovan in 1950. The creation was ignored by many male manufacturers forcing Marion to take the bull by the horns and selling them straight to Saks Fifth Avenue. - Anti-fungal drug
It was invented by Rachel Fuller Brown and Elizabeth Lee Hazen in 1950. The health researchers collaborated on mail in making the Nystatin, one of the first effective anti-fungal medicines. - Computer software
It was invented by Grace Murray Hopper in 1952. Her compiler could translate written language into computer code. She was also part of the team that developed COBOL, one of the first modern computer programming languages. - Waterproof leather protector
It was invented by Patsy O’Connell Sherman in 1956. What occurred as a mistake turned out to be a boon to leather makers. While attempting to develop a new kind of rubber for jet fuel lines, Sherman and her lab partner Sam Smith accidentally discovered a waterproof, stain proof, insoluble polymer that eventually became Scotchgard. - Hydyne rocket fuel
It was invented by Mary Sherman Morgan in 1957. The first satellite ever launched into orbit by the United States, owed its success to Hydyne, the improved rocket fuel that Morgan created during her time as technical lead at North American Aviation’s Rocketdyne Division. - Bullet-proof fiber
It was invented by Stephanie Kwolek in 1966. While she was searching for strong but lightweight plastics to use in car tires, Stephanie discovered what would become known as Kevlar which has numerous applications like; bullet-proof vests, and is also used in numerous applications, such as bridge cables, canoes, and frying pans. - Call-center system
It was invented by Erna Schneider Hoover in 1967. Her computerized solution monitored call volumes and adjusted acceptance rates accordingly, so as not to overload circuits. - Home security system
It was invented by Marie Van Brittan Brown in 1969. After slow responses by police in her neighbourhood, Brown took matters into her own hands and created a home security system with closed-circuit television. - Word processor
It was invented Evelyn Berezin by 1971. Evelyn created the world’s first word processor. She also founded her own company, Redactron after the realisation that she wouldn’t move up in the industry. - Photo enhancement
It was invented by Barbara Askins in 1978. As an employee for NASA, her responsibility was in finding a way to improve the quality of photos taken from space.
Her method of enhancing photo negatives helped to clarify photos after they were already developed with add on technologies from her invention being adapted for use with X-rays and historical photo restoration. - Space station batteries
It was invented by Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria in 1980. The International Space Station which relies on solar power is blocked for a 3rd of its rotation when the earth blocks the sun’s rays.
Her contribution was long-life nickel-hydrogen batteries that keep the International Space Station powered up during that period. - Laser cataract surgery
It was invented by Patricia Bath in 1986. Her Laserphaco Probe allowed doctors to dissolve cataracts quickly and painlessly before applying new lenses to patients’ eyes with this advancement in medical practice being used worldwide to prevent blindness due to cataracts. - Humane cattle restraints
It was invented by Temple Grandin in 1990. Her innovative designs in the field of animal husbandry led to calmer livestock and fewer injuries. - Stem cell isolation
It was invented by Ann Tsukamoto in 1991. Through her breakthrough in cancer research, her co-patented process of isolating human stem cells found in bone marrow helped save hundreds of thousands of lives. - The Agpar score
It was invented by Dr. Virginia Apgar In 1952. Agpar was an obstetrical anesthesiologist who began testing newborns one minute and five minutes after birth to determine if they needed immediate care.
Her method started being used by the medical community with the backronym—an acronym designed to fit an existing word—to remember the criteria scored: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration.
BY CLASSIC 105