Women's innovation
Women who changed the world.
Barred from laboratories, hospital staffs, engineering faculties and often from the patent process itself — and present in the record anyway, with numbers, dates and archives to prove it.
Sarah E. Goode
Among the first Black women to receive a US patent
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Dressmaker who redesigned the ironing board
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Built a manufacturing and distribution system from nothing
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Chemist who made the first effective leprosy treatment injectable
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Computed the trajectories that put Americans in orbit
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Patented the first home video security system
Explore profilePatricia E. Bath
Ophthalmologist who invented laser cataract surgery apparatus
Explore profileValerie L. Thomas
NASA scientist who patented the illusion transmitter
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Mathematician behind the geodetic Earth model used by GPS
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Theoretical physicist in condensed matter and telecommunications research
Explore profileMarian Croak
Engineer of voice over IP and text-to-donate
Explore profileHadiyah-Nicole Green
Physicist developing laser-activated nanoparticle cancer therapy
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