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Born in 1855 in Toledo, Ohio to Oliver and Harriet (Kaufman) Jacobs, Goode was originally named Sarah Elisabeth Jacobs. [2] When she was young, her father worked as a waiter, and her mother kept the house. [3] Her mother also served as an organizer for the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in Toledo, [4] which was a stop on the Underground Railroad. [5]
The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame was a program the State of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services ran from 1978 [1] through 2011. The Hall has over 400 members. [ 2 ] In 2019, the Hall's physical archives and online records were transferred to the State Archives in the Ohio History Center .
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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“The Champion of Women Inventors.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 8, no. 1, Summer 1992, pp22–26. “The Patent Office Clerk as Conjurer: The Vanishing Lady Trick in a Nineteenth-Century Historical Source,” in Women, Work, and Technology: Transformations, edited by Barbara Drygulski Wright et al. Ann Arbor: University of ...
Elizabeth Blackwell (abolitionist, women's rights activist, first female doctor in U.S.) (Cincinnati) John Brown (abolitionist) (Hudson) Alice A. W. Cadwallader (philanthropist and temperance activist) (St. Clairsville) Rebecca Ballard Chambers (temperance reformer) (Ohio) Annie W. Clark (social reformer)
Margaret J. Andrew (March 2, 1908 - September 5, 2000) was an American experimental engineer. [1] Born in Dayton, Ohio, she had a focus in science and technology.Her work as an experimental engineer lead to two patents for improving dishwashing and clothes washing appliances. [1]
Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Denver, Colorado.As a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, she won the Denver City and Colorado State science fair competition, and placed second in the Physics division and a first place award from the Air Force at the International Science Fair for her project entitled, "Holographic Study of the Sporangiophore Phycomyces".