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Joining them in the next class of inductees are two Black women inventors who changed the way we work and see. Croak, now a vice president at Google, developed Voice over Internet Protocol ...
A Florida man was apprehended in a wooded area in Washington County after a woman he allegedly assaulted and held in a storage container escaped. David Earl Gipson, 40, has been arrested on ...
PITTSBURGH, March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a woman, a wife of 20 years, and a first-time inventor, I wanted to create a product that would be beneficial for other women and wives," said ...
A native of North Carolina, Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, a self-taught inventor, contributed much to women’s health and daily life. An earlier contribution she made was the sanitary belt ...
But a more recent innovation was causing an even bigger stir: the Garis-Cochran Dishwashing Machine, the only device in the massive hall invented by a woman. Over 200 dirty dishes could be loaded ...
Only 16% of patent inventors worldwide in 2023 were women, according to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Additionally, a new analysis in the field of copyright in the ...
The Secret History of the Rape Kit, a revealing new book by the journalist Pagan Kennedy, doubles as an account of the largely unknown history of the collection box’s real inventor—a woman ...
Scientists and innovators from the University of Nebraska discuss the importance of women inventors. Women contribute unique perspectives to innovation, essential in solving today’s diverse ...
Many are either directly marketed to women or vaguely so ... it’s easy to get hit with ads for them from Native, or Lume or Mando (the rare example specifically for men), or even a legacy ...
According to the United States Library of Congress, we may never know the full extent of female innovation because “many women inventors didn’t use their own names on patent applications”.
I went over to Dearborn to explore little-known facts about women inventors in the automotive industry. Now most of the time when you hear of women in manufacturing in the early 1900s, Rosie the ...