Saturday, February 4, 2012

A woman leads to Invention


Does everyone know that few important things are invented by women, without those things our daily life schedule would have been very difficult?
Yes! Women the mother of nature, not only cared for everyone but also invented new things to make our life easier.
Following are the list of world’s top women inventors:
Ø  Coffee Machine: A sip of coffee make you think of calm and pleasure. But ever you thought who made easier for you to make a cup coffee, its Melitta Bentz’s invention.
Ø  Throw away diapers: Earlier women felt the frustration in spending her days washing, bleaching and drying cloth baby diapers.  Mrs. Donovan invented the throw away diaper and sold her company for $1 million dollars and made moms around the world very happy.
Ø  Radium & Radioactive Material: Marie Curie was the only person to win two Nobel prizes. She was a scientist and an inventor. She invented a chemical process for extracting radioactive material from ore and she also discovered radium.
Ø  Computer Compiler: Admiral Grace Murray Hopper invented the first computer compiler. The way software was written was changed. She developed COBOL, which is the first user-friendly computer software program.
Ø  Brown Paper Bag: Martha Knight invented the machine that brown paper bags. She went on to invent several other machines and tools.
Ø  Hair – care products :Sarah Walker created hair-care products especially for black women
Ø  Removing cataract lenses: Patricia Bath - the first African-American female doctor to patent a method for removing cataract lenses. This transformed eye surgery by using a laser device that has helped many blind people to see.
Ø  Hair growing lotion: Madam C. J. Walker invented a hair growing lotion
Ø  Hair brush: Lyda D. Newman  invented the hair brush
Ø  Ear clips: Carol Randall  invented the ear clips
Ø  Pressing iron: Theora Stephens created the pressing/curling Iron
Ø  M. Toland - Inventor of float-operated circuit closer
Ø  Marie Brown - She got a patent for closed circuit television security system
Ø  Eliza Bryant founded the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People.
Ø  Sybilla Masters invented a way for cleaning and curing the Indian corn crops

As more women are encouraged to invent, the list of women inventors grows. But still today less than 10% of patents belong to women. Necessity is truly the mother of invention.
Women have been breaking barriers around the world and changing the way the world functions. Women have to walk that extra mile and fight lone battles to make the world wake up and see the need for change.