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Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]
Two other inventors, Robert Douglass and John Apjohn, also patented windscreen cleaning devices in the same year. Car heater Margaret A. Wilcox invented an improved car heater, which directed air from over the engine to warm the chilly toes of aristocratic 19th-century motorists, in 1893. She also invented a combined clothes and dish washer.
It includes American inventors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American women inventors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 218 total.
Pages in category "Women inventors" The following 128 pages are in this category, out of 128 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Before engineering was recognized as a formal profession, women with engineering skills often sought recognition as inventors. [citation needed] During the Islamic Golden Period from the 8th century until the 15th century there were many Muslim women who were inventors and engineers, such as the 10th-century astrolabe maker Al-ʻIjliyyah. [1]
“The Champion of Women Inventors.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 8, no. 1, Summer 1992, pp22–26. “The Patent Office Clerk as Conjurer: The Vanishing Lady Trick in a Nineteenth-Century Historical Source,” in Women, Work, and Technology: Transformations, edited by Barbara Drygulski Wright et al. Ann Arbor: University of ...
Women inventors (1 C, 127 P) > Invention award winners (2 C, 2 P) A. ... Pages in category "Inventors" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...