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Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
Greek inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Greeks. Greek people have made major innovations to mathematics , astronomy , chemistry , engineering , architecture , and medicine .
Tabitha Babbitt (1779–1853), American inventor and tool maker; Mary Brush (fl. 1815), American inventor; Martha Coston (1826–1904), American inventor; Ellen Eglin (1849–fl. 1890), American inventor; Caroline Eichler (1809–1843), German inventor, instrument maker and prostheses designer. Hanna Hammarström (1829–1909), Swedish inventor
The hot comb was an invention developed in France as a way for women with coarse curly hair to achieve a fine straight look traditionally modeled by historical Egyptian women. [44] However, it was Annie Malone who first patented this tool, while her protégé and former worker, Madam C. J. Walker, widened the teeth. [45]
Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century CE), Greek and Roman history; Strabo (63 BCE – 24 CE), geography, Greek history; Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BCE – c. 31 CE), Roman history; Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history; Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
Abydenus; Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides; Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor; Anticlides; Antipater; Antisthenes of Rhodes; Aratus of Sicyon; Artapanus of Alexandria
Also: Greece: People: By occupation: Scientists / Women by occupation: Women scientists This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Greek scientists . It includes scientists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
It includes historians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Greek women historians" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.