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  2. Margaret A. Wilcox - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Wilcox was born in 1838 in Chicago, Illinois.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]

  3. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Snugli and Weego were invented by nurse and peacekeeper Ann Moore first in the 1960s. Pertussis Vaccine 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. [citation ...

  4. List of women astronauts - Wikipedia

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    The first astronauts originally from Britain, South Korea, and Iran were women, while there was a two-year gap in Russia from the first man in space on Vostok 1 to the first woman in space on Vostok 6. The time between the first American man and first American woman in space was 22 years between Freedom 7 and STS-7, respectively.

  5. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. The flight only lasted about 10 minutes, but the six members of the crew experienced weightlessness and were able to see Earth from space. The flight launched from Blue Origin’s West Texas ...

  7. Women in the automotive industry - Wikipedia

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    This was the start of women playing important roles in the automotive industry. [1] As at 2016, only 11% of the global workforce in the automotive industry were women, with large national industries such as Japan facing shortages in female engineers. [2] [3]

  8. Hummers, Cadillacs, and More of the Biggest Cars Ever Made - AOL

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    Chevrolet invented several family cars at once by debuting the Suburban in 1936; but it's rolled into the modern day as an extended, truck-based SUV. ... with 5.5 feet of interior space from side ...

  9. Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster - Wikipedia

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    It is the first production car launched into space. The car, mounted on the rocket's second stage, was launched on an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars. [6] The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion of 1.66 astronomical units (au). [4]