Useful and unexpected inventions made by ladies (17 photos)

Category: Nostalgia, PEGI 16
7 December 2022

Often the intellectual abilities of women in society are strongly belittled. And the logic of the fair sex is crooked, and with they are not very good at exact sciences. And, in general, the destiny of a woman is to give birth to children and cook borscht. And you don't have to jump over your head.





This fact is not widely advertised, but there are discoveries and inventions made by women. And we use them very well. everyday life, without thinking about authorship. Although the creators are worth know at least for the sake of remembering with a kind word.

Microwave



Jessie Carthray is the creator of that useful kitchen assistant, in which we put several times a day for a quick heating a wide variety of food.



She used as a basis the idea of military engineer Percy Spencer. The first microwave ovens were huge, weighed under 350 kg and were used to defrost food in military canteens. We have up to Microwave ovens were banned in 1985 due to harmful radiation.

Saw



Yes, you are like a circular saw, sawing and sawing everything! More or less like this many men during a quarrel can name the second half. Meanwhile as its creator is also a lady. Weaver Tabitha Babbit watching the work of her husband, noted that during sawing firewood, only the first move. The second is useless. And she asked the men to make a circular saw. Attached the disk to her spinning wheel and demonstrated to the public the first circular saw world.

WIFI



We are used to invisible WI-FI like air. We do not notice. But we instantly feel the absence of this invention, which is also lady thought. Not only smart, but also very beautiful.

Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr during a break between filming trained the mind with invention. Things didn't always go according to plan. And WI-FI communication protocol appeared while working on another project - radio-controlled rocket. But Lamarr was officially recognized as the author and inducted into the US Inventors Hall of Fame.

Fridge



Another kitchen unit, without which it is difficult to imagine life, the lady also came up with. Mary Ann Pennington in 1907 invented a method of transporting frozen food for the needs of the army. And through For several years, Florence Passepart, taking the method as a basis, has already developed stationary kitchen helper for long-term food storage.

Ironing board



Before the advent of this simple contraption, ironing used any more or less flat surface. As a professional dressmaker, Sarah Boone constantly faced the challenges of processing small details - folds, collars, slots for buttons. Boon came up with use a board narrowed at one end, and the work went faster and more fun.

Filters



Coffee lovers love the drink itself, but they are not at all happy with the sediment in cup. Melitta Benz loved invigorating coffee, but the thick of her order infuriated. What to do? Imagination came to the rescue: a pan with holes and a layer from a blotting paper borrowed from my son's notebook. And in 1908 Melitta has already filed a patent for coffee filters.

The business became a family business: right in the apartment they launched production under slogan "Filters that do not change the taste of coffee." Now run the business already great-grandchildren of the inventor. But less relevant and in demand the product did not. Rather, on the contrary.

Snowplow



It would seem that what could be common between classical vocals and physical labor? It turns out it can. Cynthia Westover. The girl started in 1982 career as an opera singer. But she failed to become famous. Later five years she left the stage and got a job at customs. And then transferred to New York police.

Cynthia was assigned to the department that oversaw the cleaning of the streets. and helped in invention a fresh look new in the structure of man. Looking around snowdrifts, she quickly realized that the workers needed a self-unloading dump truck.

The cleaning speed has increased, for a minute, 200 times! And Cynthia having retired, she did not sit in the arms of boredom. She got a job in a magazine took up writing and also founded an organization that provides helping blind people around the world.

Dishwasher



Washing dishes is one of the most disliked household chores. work. Often provoking scandals in the family. But everything changes when dishwasher appears. And it was also designed by a lady.

However, in such a family, the girl simply did not have a chance to do something else. Josephine Cochrane's father, John Garis, invented the hydraulic press, and great-grandfather was none other than the inventor of the steamboat, John Fitch.

Josephine approached the work thoroughly and seriously: she compiled table of diameters of all kinds of plates, has developed wire mesh for all existing shapes and sizes. She placed the dishes in the wheel, installed in a metal cauldron.

The motor rotated it, the utensils were washed with soapy foam. Then it just had to be rinsed with clean water.

Diapers



Young mothers who are faced with caring for their baby for the first time often they say that the inventor of diapers, which made life so much easier, is worthy medals and all possible awards. And she was an inventor. Because the Marion Donovan had trouble washing after giving birth child and washing things that he soiled with enviable regularity.

The thing had to keep moisture inside, and not have negative effect on the delicate skin of the crumbs. Breakdown of the pen became own Marion tulle curtains. Then she played with parachute fabric. AT as a result, the bag with holes for the legs did not leak, did not constrain movement and did not irritate delicate baby skin.

Since then, 70 years have passed. But diapers in more in the form familiar to us on an industrial scale began to produce later, only in the 60s. Because before Procter & Gamble, none the company did not dare to launch the release of such a strange novelty.

Silicone



Patricia Billings dreamed of becoming a sculptor. One day one of her plaster work dried up so much that the plaster simply crumbled into crumb. And the woman set out to create such material that would retained moisture without breaking down.

As a result of long chemical experiments that took 8 years, Patricia achieved her goal - she created a non-combustible, durable and elastic material. Though She did not become the successor of Michelangelo's work, but she entered history.

Corrector



And again the story of the invention, which prompted by necessity. Blot fixer and the errors came up with secretary Betty Graham. Watching the workers repainting the walls in the office, she thought that the mistakes in the text could be do not wash, but cover. And print on top. So almost nothing will noticeably. And you don't have to reprint an entire page because of one mistake.

Beth took up the basics of chemistry. Then moved on to testing. And a few months later, she had the right composition. The first customers were colleagues, whose quick-drying and imperceptible substance led to delight. Beth filed a patent, took up production at first at home, and then acquired a whole factory.

Kevlar



The invention of another woman is used mainly by men. And saves their lives. Chemist Stefania Kwolek was involved in the creation car tires. And the by-product of her work was super-strong a substance that is many times stronger than metal. Kevlar began to be used in the production of bulletproof vests, and Stephanie opened a new direction of science - molecular chemistry.

canned meat



The technology of canning products was invented a very long time ago. Her The founder is Nicolas Appert. And after completion in 1870 Nadezhda Kozhina began to use it on an industrial scale. So that all the canned food produced in the world today is the product of an invention our compatriot.

Liquid soap and more



Olivia Dennis is an outstanding woman in every way. When she received an order from the railway department to modify railway car, then after the demonstration ledand the commission in shock condition. Olive came up with dirt-repellent upholstery for shelves, folding seats, liquid soap, paper towels, headboard lamps with power button, ventilation system in the process of movement.



And this is not a complete list of useful inventions that made by women. Spacecraft engine, x-ray stereometer, high-octane gasoline, syringe, drinking fountain, periscope, microelectrode, engine silencer, electric water heater - all this and not only inventions of women. And far from the last: ladies still they will figure out how to surprise men and the whole world.

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