Women and their Inventions

Hattie Alexander Meningitis serum Mary Anderson Windshield wipers Anonymous Woman Ice cream cone Apgar score Barbara Askins Photofilm development process Patricia Bath Laserphaco probe Maria Beasley Life raft Mellita Bentz Coffee pot & coffee filters Patricia Billings Geobond Ann Bissell Carpet sweeper Katharine Blodgett Non-reflective glass Tabith Bobbitt Circular saw Yvonne C. Brill Jet propulsion Marie Van Brittan Brown Home security system Barbara Cartland Long Distance Glider Josephine Cochrane Dishwasher Alice Chatham Space helmet Margaret Colvin 6 Patents for a clothes washer Anna Connelly Fire escape Martha Coston Signal Flare Jeanne L. Crews Space bumper Caresse Crosby Brassière Emily Jane Cummins Solar powered refrigerator Marie Curie X-ray radiography Lynn Deffenbaugh Packaging for forzen food in the microwave Marion Donovan Disposable diapers Theodora Anna Doukaine The Fork Gertrude Elion Drugs to treat leukemia Fanny Farmer Standardized recipes Letita Geer Medical Syringe Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria Long Life Nickel Hydrogen Batteries Bette Nesmith Graham Liquid paper Animal handling systems Catherine Littlefield Greene Cotton Gin Ruth Handler Barbie Doll & breast prosthesis Beulah Henry Umbrella, typewriter, can opener & much more Cobol Computer Language May Horn Apnea detector Gladys Hobby Process of mass production of penicillin & Terramyican Hypatia of Alexandra Astrolabe & Hydrometer Shirley Ann Jackson Caller ID, waiting Nancy Johnson Ice cream freezer Eldorado Jones Airplane Muffler Martine Kempf Voice activated wheelchair Mary Kies 1st US patent for a woman – weaving straw together with silk Kevlar Margaret Knight Machine to make flat bottom paper bags Deepika Kurup Water purification system Leona Libby Nuclear reactor Hedy Lamarr Spread Spectrum Technology& Wireless Communication Ada Lovelace 1st computer program Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill Airplane – Maple Leaf Trainer Eliabeth Magie Monopoly Joy Mangano Mircale mop Maria the Jewess Water Bath Sybillia Masters Machine for grinding corn into meal Agnes McQueay Bounce & Downy Elizabeth McCoy High yield penicillin Mary Sherman Morgan Rocket fuel Alice Parker Central heating system Florence Parpant Electric Refrigerator Dorothy Rodgers Jonny-Mop Becky Schroeder Glo sheet Queen Semiramis Canals, bridges & causeways–Hanging Gardens of Babylon Patsy Sherman Scotchgard Empress Hsi Ling Shi Silk reel & loom Ruth Siems Stove Top Stuffing Hayat Sindi Paper that detects diseases Hannah Wilkinson Slater Cotton sew thread Anna Stork & Andrea Sreshta LuminAD Solar Light Harriet Williams Russell Strong Water Irrigation system Jan Svochak Bifocal contact lens Mária Telkes Solar distiller, Solar oven & Solar House Rose Totino Frozen pizza dough Ann Tsukamoto Process to isolate Stem cells Kristina Tsvetanova Blitab Jeanne Villepreux-Power Aquarium Ruth Graves Wakefield Chocolate Chip cookies Madame C. J. Walker Hair products for Africian American Women Mary Walton Chimney to prevent air pollution and system to reduce noise from trains Dr. Gladys West GPS Technology Margaret Wilcox Car Heater Anna Wessel William Diphtheria immunization & rabies antitoxin Rosilyn Yalow Radio immunoassy Rachel Zimmerman Blissymbol printer Milly Zantow Numbering system to identify different kinds of plastics