Do you like beer? Can you imagine living without Wi-Fi? You have women to thank for it. It be true. When we talk of inventors, the first people who come to mind are Albert Einstein and Thomas Alva Edison. Naturally, most people assume that with the exception of Madame Marie Curie, most big inventors were all men. But here are 10 cool inventions that men would never believe to be the work of women.
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1.We can’t live without a refrigerator today and we have Florence Parpart to thank for it. She invented the modern electric refrigerator in 1914. In 1900, Parpart also received a patent for a vastly improved street-cleaning machine, which she marketed and sold to cities across America.
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2.If we ever had to do an emergency landing in the sea (god forbid), we better be sending up a silent prayer to Maria Beasely, because she invented life rafts. One day in 1882, Maria Beasely looked out at the sea and said, “People should, like, stop dying in huge transportation disasters.” And then she invented life rafts. Beasely also invented a machine for making barrels, and it made her really rich.
3. If we were to talk in terms of Indian concepts of paap and punya, then Nancy Johnson would probably earn the maximum punya. Nancy invented the ice cream freezer in 1843, patenting a design which is still used to the current day, even after the advent of electric ice cream makers. Thank you, Nancy Johnson. Thank you.
4.We women are able to filter out most creepos over phone today thanks to this wonderful lady. The theoretical physicist Dr Shirley Jackson, while working at Bell Laboratories, conducted breakthrough research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.
5.This woman is seriously badass! Hedy Lamarr’s invention of a secret communications system during World War II for radio-controlling torpedoes, employing “frequency hopping” technology, laid the technological foundations for everything from Wi-Fi to GPS. She also happened to be a world-famous film star.
6.Men who think that women are delicate things who will scream and faint at the sight of a gun should take a look at this. It was a woman, a DuPont chemist, Stephanie Kwolek who invented the Kevlar bulletproof vest. Lightweight, high-tensile and five times stronger than steel, a Kevlar will actually take a bullet for you. Stephanie accidentally invented it while trying to perfect a lighter fiber for car tires and earned a patent in 1966.
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7.Do men think women take selfies too often? Well, we are just basking in the glory of our sister from the past. Katharine Blodgett, General Electric’s first female scientist, discovered a way to transfer thin monomolecular coatings to glass and metals in 1935. The result: glass that eliminated glare and distortion. It revolutionized cameras, microscopes, eyeglasses, and more.
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8.Men think they look oh-so-manly guzzling a mug of beer, thumping the glass on table and roaring for more. Well, guess what! Beer was invented by women (in your face, mister!). Beer historian Jane Peyton claims that ancient Mesopotamian women were the first to develop, sell, and even drink beer. So next time you raise a glass, make a toast to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of brewing and beer!
9.People may think that only boys can be computer geeks and avid coders, but the modern coding language is the result of a woman’s ingenuity. In the 1950s, Admiral Grace Hopper invented the compiler, which translates English commands into computer code. This device meant that programmers could create code more easily and with fewer errors. Hopper’s second compiler, the Flow-Matic, was used to program UNIVAC I and II, which were the first computers available commercially. Admiral Hopper also oversaw the development of the Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL), one of the first computer programming languages.
10.Negotiating rain and snow storms has become so much easier, thanks to windshield wipers and Mary Anderson. She noticed that the driver had to stop the tram every few minutes to wipe the snow off his front window. At the time, all drivers had to follow the same routine. When she returned home, Anderson developed a squeegee on a spindle that was attached to a handle on the inside of the vehicle. When the driver needed to clear the glass, he simply pulled on the handle and the squeegee wiped the precipitation from the windshield. Anderson received the patent for her device in 1903.
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