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Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy. Wrinkle-free fiber Wrinkle-free fiber invented by Ruth R. Benerito The invention was said to have "saved the cotton industry".
Mary Engle Pennington (October 8, 1872 – December 27, 1952) was an American bacteriological chemist, food scientist and refrigeration engineer. She was a pioneer in the preservation, handling, storage and transportation of perishable foods and the first female lab chief at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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]
With environmentally sound practices and healthy eating initiatives, the world of food is continually transitioning. Women have played a particularly large role in these changes throughout history ...
Hats off to these women, whose commitment to fostering community and conversation through food is extraordinary and, well, truly worthy of a chef’s kiss. ... The world-famous Texas BBQ pitmaster ...
Beatrice Ojakangas (née Luoma; born 1934 [1]) is an American cookbook author, writer, television cook, and inventor of pizza rolls, from Floodwood, Minnesota.Of Finnish heritage, Ojakangas has focused on Nordic and Scandinavian cooking, and particularly preserving its culinary traditions in the United States.
Madeline M. Turner was an American inventor.She invented Turner's Fruit-Press, which paved the way for further development of the fruit press.She was granted U.S. patent 1,180,959 on April 25, 1916 and exhibited her invention at the Panama–California Exposition.
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.