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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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This list refers to technological achievements which took place in South Asia up to 1950. The area being considered encompasses the modern-day states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in keeping with the UN Geoscheme.
The following is a list of the Four Great Inventions—as designated by Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a British scientist, author and sinologist known for his research on the history of Chinese science and technology.
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.
Asian women in science (25 C, 1 P) ... Asian inventions (31 C) M. ... Pages in category "Science and technology in Asia"
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) .