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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 ]
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]
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Mar. 2—It may seem like a recent trend for more women to be entering STEM fields, but women have a long history of contributing to innovations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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An ancient wind powered iron smelting technology in Sri Lanka. Nature 379 (3): 60–63. K. Kamarustafa, Ahmet T. (1992). "Part 1 No. 1: Islamic Cartography 1". Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Vol. 2 Book 1. New York: Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-226-31635-1; Katz, V. J. (1995), "Ideas of Calculus in Islam ...
FPT Corporation: the largest information technology service company and AI provider in Vietnam. The company's smart cloud division developed one of the first AI virtual assistant for call centers, utilizing large language models (LLMs) , natural language processing (NLP) , automatic speech recognition (ASR) , and text-to-speech (TTS) .
In the past, among Asian civilizations considered particularly notable for their contributions to science and technology were India, China and the West Asian civilizations. [2] Countries such as Japan , South Korea , and Taiwan are recently known for technology, while China and India are also major contributors to science and technology.