Women



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Stephanie Kwoleck : Chemist Martha Coston : Inventor
Hedy Lamarr : Actress, Inventor Gertrude Elion : Chemist, Nobel Prize Winner
Janese Swanson : Toy Inventor, Entrepeneur, Founder of Girl Tech Eliza Lucas Pinckney : South Carolina Plantation
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori : Nobel Prize Winner Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper : Mathematian, Computer Pioneer
Mary White Ovington : Co-Founder of the NAACP Sarah and Angelina Grimke : Abolitionists
Amanda Theodosia Jones : Inventor Clara Barton : Founder of The American Red Cross
Elda Emma Anderson : Physicist, Atomic Bomb Dorothea Lynde
Dix : Social reformer for the mentally ill
Emily Dickinson : Poet Rosa Parks : Civil Rights
Madeleine Albright : Former Sec. of State Anna Eleanor Roosevelt : First Lady, Social Activist
Mary Morse Baker Eddy : Founder of Christian Science Mary Walton : Inventor
Billie Jean King : Tennis Player Mary Edwards Walker : Civil War Doctor
Sandra Day O'Conner : Supreme Court Justice Jeannette Rankin : Suffragist and Elected Public Official

 

Suggested reading if you have a further interest in Women and their many contributions to our way of life.

    Mothers and Daughters of Invention - Notes for a Revised Histrory of Technology
    Stanley, Autumn

    Women Inventors
    Altman, Linda Jacobs

    Mothers of Invention - From the Bra to the Bomb: Forgotten Women & Their Unforgettable ideas
    Vare & Ptacek

    Feminine Ingenuity - Women and Invention in America
    Macdonald, Anne L.

    Women Inventors - Honored by the World Intellectual Property Organization
    Moussa, Farag

    Women Invent : Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World
    Casey, Susan
 

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