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Little is known about her early life, [citation needed] which was common for many women of her era, whose personal histories were often overshadowed by their male counterparts. [1] Wilcox showed an early interest in mechanical engineering despite the social conventions of her era, which often restricted women's roles to domestic domains.
Snugli and Weego were invented by nurse and peacekeeper Ann Moore first in the 1960s. Pertussis A pioneering female American doctor , medical researcher and an outspoken voice in the pediatric community, the supercentenarian Leila Alice Denmark (1898–2012) is credited as co-developer of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine .
March 12, 1994: The first women were ordained as Church of England priests; 32 women were ordained together. [93] [94] 1992: First women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia. 1996: On 21 December 1996 Gloria Shipp was the first Aboriginal woman ordained as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia
By the 1930s, most of the mechanical technology used in today's automobiles had been invented, although some ideas were later "re-invented" and credited to others. For example, front-wheel drive was re-introduced by André Citroën with the launch of the Traction Avant in 1934.
The life of the automobile: the complete history of the motor car (Macmillan, 2014). Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century (Univ of California Press, 2014). Takatsu, Toshiji. "The history and future of high-speed railways in Japan." Japan Railway & Transport Review 48 ...
Bertha Benz at age 18, c. 1867 Cäcilie Bertha Ringer was born on 3 May 1849 to a wealthy carpenter family in Pforzheim.She was the third of nine children. Her father, Karl Friedrich Ringer, a master builder and carpenter, and her 20 year younger mother, Auguste Friedrich, were wealthy individuals who invested heavily in their children's educations.
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 ]
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year