INVENTORS

KATHARINE BURR BLODGETT was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from the University Of Cambridge (1926) and the first woman research scientist for General Electric’s Schenectady, New York laboratory (1920). Blodgett received eight US patents, most famously for inventing low-reflectance "invisible" glass. The legacy of her work is still seen today in camera lenses, computer screens, eyeglasses, and many other applications.

During the Civil War (1860 – 1865) women inventors in the United States, received more patents than in the previous 70 years (72).  A variety of medical instruments and devices were invented and patented by women during the nineteenth century, including sterilization techniques and devices, medical beds and chairs, field ambulances and stretchers, splints, and an improved speculum.

 

WHO SAID:  “When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.”

 

MAGGIE KUHN   

 

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