Her combination telescope and lamp for submarines, patented in , speaks for itself. Sarah E. Goode 's folding cabinet bed didn't just maximize space in small homes. In , it made her the first African-American woman with a U. The fully functional desk could be used by day and then folded down for a good night's sleep. The Murphy bed came along some 15 years later. Biophysicist Maria Telkes's place was in the house—the very first percent solar house. In , the Hungarian scientist invented the thermoelectric power generator to provide heat for Dover House, a wedge-shaped structure she conceived with architect Eleanor Raymond.
Telkes used Glauber's salt, the sodium salt of sulfuric acid, to store heat in preparation for sunless days. Dover House survived nearly three Massachusetts winters before the system failed. Apparently, it takes a stain to fight one. In , 3M chemist Patsy Sherman was perplexed when some fluorochemical rubber spilled on a lab assistant's shoe and wouldn't come off.
Without changing the color of the shoe, the stain repelled water, oil, and other liquids. Sherman and her co-inventor Samuel Smith called it Scotchgard. And the rest is Katharine Blodgett, General Electric's first female scientist, discovered a way to transfer thin monomolecular coatings to glass and metals in The result: glass that eliminated glare and distortion, which revolutionized cameras, microscopes, eyeglasses, and more.
Women in computer science have a role model in Grace Hopper. To provide a solution to the problem she attached a circular blade to a spinning wheel which resulted in the invention of the circular saw.
Ada Lovelace added her own notes when translating the lectures of her mathematics professor. Cochran came up with the invention to use water pressure, instead of scrubbers that were used back then, to clean dishes. Maria Beasley was a serial inventor who was already credited with the barrel-hopping machine patent. She later designed a life raft with guard rails that was foldable and fireproof.
The life rafts created based on her design were used on the Titanic, and saved over lives. Connelly invented an external metal staircase which acted as the first fire escape and saved lives from deadly fires.
Moreover, her invention resulted in the modification of the New York City building codes, and required residential buildings to have a secondary means of escape for emergencies. Medical practitioners were using syringes that required the use of both hands to administer injections.
Since its discovery, it has been used for anything from bicycle tires to most famously police protective vests. This is the woman you can thank for keeping us from having to wash every dish by hand.
She originally came up with the idea of a mechanical dishwasher that would hold dishes in a rack while pressurized water sprayed them clean. After her husband passed, she began marketing her inventions to hotels until, eventually, it became the standard household appliance we now know today. Though Maria invented several successful devices, her most famous is the life raft. Prior to her contributions, emergency rafts were simple planks with no guard rails. Maria invented a more sophisticated device that was fireproof, easily folded and unfolded for storage and had guard rails on the sides to keep people safe inside.
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