Take the Women challenge! Inventors Mary Anderson Hedy Lamarr

She received a patent for her A Hollywood star, once “window cleaning device” in dubbed “the most beautiful 1903. Within about a decade, woman in the world,” she the windshield wiper would co-invented “frequency hop- become standard equip- ping,” a technology originally ment on American cars. Hers designed to guide torpedoes was operated via a lever in WWII and now used in inside the vehicle. 2 wireless phones, GPS and Inventor______military communications.

Virginia Apgar 3 Inventor ______Gertrude Belle Elion Baby’s first test is named af- ter this physician. Her simple Test your This Nobel laureate evaluation of a newborn’s 1 developed drugs for treating leukemia, gout, condition, first published in Inventor ______1953, checks a new baby’s knowledge malaria, meningitis and viral “appearance, pulse, grimace, herpes, as well as the first activity and respiration” at The first U.S. patent immno-suppressive drug one minute and five minutes used for organ transplants. after birth. granted to a woman She was the first woman to was in 1809 for a be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. new process for Maria Telkes making straw hats and bonnets. Since This University of 5 Sarah Blakeley scientist, known as the then, women have Inventor ______“Sun Queen,” designed In 2012, at the age of 41, innovative technology for patented thousands she became the youngest Solar One, UD’s experimental of inventions, from woman to be named to solar-powered house. She the Forbes World’s was posthumously inducted the wringer washer Billionaires list. The into the National Inventors 4 to cancer-fighting self-made entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2012. invented Spanx, a popular Inventor ______drugs. Can you line of comfortable, correctly match body-conforming undergarments. the inventor to her Stephanie Kwolek picture or invention? While a at DuPont, 7 this Delaware resident Patsy Sherman invented , the strong- 6 Inventor ______as-steel used The accidental spill of a in tires to bullet-proof vests. chemical on a tennis shoe in Police officers and other Inventor ______a lab at 3M Company led to members of a Kevlar Survi- the invention of Scotch- vors’ Club tell how this novel guard® by this inventor and fiber saved their lives. her collaborator. The product repels stains and allows for the removal of oily stains from synthetic fabrics. Sarah Goode A former slave, she moved to Chicago after the Civil War to 8 9 Mary Dixon Kies open a furniture store. The cabinet bed she invented In 1809, she received the looked like a desk when first U.S. patent awarded to a folded up. It was designed to woman. It was for a process maximize the space in small for weaving straw with silk or rooms. She was the first thread used in hat making. African American woman First Lady Dolley Madison to receive a U.S. patent. praised her for boosting Hers was granted on July 10 the economy at a time 14, 1885. Inventor ______Inventor ______Inventor ______when European goods were embargoed in the U.S.

Answer Key

10 8 4 2 6 an m er Sh sy t Pa — es i K xon Di Mary — k e l o w K e i an ph e St arr m La Hedy — nderson A Mary — — —

9 7 5 3 1 es lk Te a i Mar — Goode h ara S — on Eli e ll Be de u r t Ger — ey l e k a l B h ara S — ar Apg a i n gi r i V —

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