Women - Women's Innovations

Melba Stone

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Anna Ruth Stork

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Vesta Oral Stoudt

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Inventor of Duct Tape
Was a factory worker at Green River Ordnance Plant in Amboy, IL during WWII; had 2 sons in the Navy; while packing ammo boxes noticed the way they were sealed made it difficult to open them & was concerned about military personnel in dangerous situations trying to open them to be able to reload their weapons in a hurry
Was unable to get supervisors or government inspectors to buy into her new packing tape method to solve the problem; 2/10/1943, wrote a letter to FDR explaining the problem & her solution, requesting he take action immediately; received a response from the War Production Board on 3/26/1943, informing her her suggestion was being implemented & her idea was "of exceptional merit"
Revolite Corporation was tasked with with making the tape (Johnson & Johnson was their parent company) & they credit her with the invention of duct tape

Born: 1891 or 1906

Country: USA

Education: Unknown

Moogega Cooper Stricker

🔭 Astronomy

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🔭 Astronomy

Her first name means rainbow in Korean
Lead of Planetary Protection for Mars 2020 Mission
Involved with the Insight Mission, the practice of protecting solar system bodies from contamination by Earth life & protecting Earth from possible life forms that may be returned from other solar system bodies
2013, participated on the first season of King of the Nerds, finishing 5th
2017, panelist in "The Original Martian Invasion" episode of Bill Nye Saves the World
Between 2015 & 2020, appeared in 33 episodes of How the Universe Works
Influential in making science accessible to more people by making it easier to understand

Born: 1985

Country: USA

Education: Hampton University BS Physics 2006; Drexel University College of Engineering MS 2008 PhD 2009 both in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Thermal Fluid Sciences

Donna Theo Strickland

⚛️ Physics 🔍 Optics

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Harriet Williams Russell Strong

💡 Inventor 🔍 Conservation

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💡 Inventor 🔍 Conservation

Primary innovator of dry land irrigation & water conservation techniques in late 19th century southern California
1887, patented her invention of a system of dams & reservoirs for water storage & flood control
Her invention enabled the construction of the Hoover Dam & the All-American Canal
Was also a successful musical composer
Her husband committed suicde when she was 39 due to financial problems; he left her with 4 daughters (ages 10 to 14) & high debts
She was self-taught in the field of agriculture to save her husband's ranch & provide for her family; she had help from some neighboring farmers who also benefitted from her water conservation & irrigation techniques; after approximately 5 years she had the largest walnut farm in the US
For the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, with the help of her daughters, she designed the award winning Pampas Plume Palace, made almost entirely of pampas grass, another of her money-making crops
During WWI she was an advocate for a national irrigation system
Advocated for suffrage saying, "When the majority of women understand the business methods of the world, they will be asked to assist in the affairs of government"
Held 5 patents

Born: 1844

Country: USA

Education: private tutors; Miss Mary Atkin's Young Ladies Seminary (now Mills College)

Josie Stuart

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Mariella Superina

🔍 Zoology

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Hannah Suplee

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Thyrsa Ann Frazier Svager

📊 Mathematics 📚 Educator

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Selma Svendsen

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Janese Swanson

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Emma J. Swartout

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Latanya Arvette Sweeney

💻 Computer Science

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💻 Computer Science

Credited with the observation that "87% of the US population is uniquely identified by date of birth, gender, & postal code"
Her best known academic work is on the theory of k-anonymity
1st African-American woman awarded a PhD in computer science from MIT
Demonstrated that a medical dataset in the public domain can be used to identify individuals regardless the removal of all explicit identifiers when the medical dataset was combined with a public voter list
Since 2011 her lab at Harvard has been conducting research on data privacy
Her research results greatly impacted HIPPA regulations
Holds 3 patents

Born: unknown

Country: USA

Education: Harvard University Extension School ALB Computer Science 1995; MIT SM Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 1997 PhD Computer Science 2001

Jane Swisshelm

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Alina Szmant

🔬 Marine Biology

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Amogha Tadimety

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Esther Sans Takeuchi

🔬 Materials Science

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Mary Burnett Talbert

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Elizabeth Marie Tallchief

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Teresa Tallien

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Nina Tandon

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Victoria Tane

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Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon

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Ida Tarbell

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Emily Tassey

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Helen Brooke Taussig

🔍 Pediatric Cardiology

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🔍 Pediatric Cardiology

Was partially deaf due to an ear infection in childhood & was fully deaf as an adult (age 32)
Pioneer in the field of pediatric cardiology
Credited with the development of treatment for Tetralogy of Fallot (most common cause of blue baby syndrome) using the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt she created with alfred Blalock &n Vivien Thomas, her colleagues at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Used lip-reading & hearing aids; developed a method of using her finger tips rather than a stethoscope to feel the rhythm of heartbeats
1st female elected head of the American Heart Association
Developed TB as a child & was ill for several years
Was dyslexic
Tried to enroll at Harvard Medical School but they didn't award MDs to women at the time; took histology, bacteriology, & anatomy at Boston College before transferring to Johns Hopkins Medical School where she obtained her MD in 1927
Advocated for the use of animals in medical research, legalized abortion, & the benefits of palliative care & hospice

Born: 1898

Country: USA

Education: Radcliffe/Harvard University-2 years of undergraduate classes before transferring to UC Berkely; Boston University-classes in histology bacteriology & anatomy; UC Berkely AB 1921; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine MD 1927

Valerie Elaine Taylor

💻 Computer Science

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Shelley Elizabeth Taylor

🔍 Social Psychology ✍️ Author

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🔍 Social Psychology ✍️ Author

A leading figure in social cognition & health psychology
Discovered false feedback of one's behavior is accepted as a basis for one's attitudes if it is consistent with pre-existing attitudes
Her 1983 theory of cognitive adaptation states that when someone faces a threatening event, their readjustment centers around finding meaning in their experience, gaining control over the situation, & boosting one's self-esteem; this theory led to her next big topic, positive illusions
She described positive illusions as "rather than perceiving themselves, the world, & the future accurately, most people regard themselves, their circumstances, & the future as considerably more positive than is objectively likely....These illusions are not merely characteristic of human thought, they appear to be adaptive, promoting rather than undermining good mental health"

Born: 1946

Country: USA

Education: Connecticut College BA Psychology; Yale University PhD Social Psychology 1972

Dasia Taylor

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Kathleen C. Taylor

🔬 Physical Chemistry

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Harriet R. Taylor

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Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum

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Maria Telkes

⚛️ Biophysics

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Merryl Tengesdal

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Valentina Tereshkova

🔭 Astronautics

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Mary Church Terrell

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Georgena Terry

⚛️ Mechanical Engineering

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⚛️ Mechanical Engineering

Began the 1st woman-specific bicycle company, Terry Precision Cycling in 1985
1991, developed & patented bicycle saddles specifically for women; 1994, did the same for handlebars
Designs he bikes to fit the different geometry of womens' bodies
Is a trained mechanical engineer
Took a leave of absence from her job at Xerox to build bikes in her basement; was unhappy in corporate life; quit to build bikes full-time in 1984
Sold her company in 2009; now concentrates on hand-building custom bikes; she does all the design & Waterford (a company in Wisconsin) builds them
Holds 3 patents

Born: unknown

Country: USA

Education: Carnegie Mellon University BS Mechanical Engineering 1980; Vermont Law & Graduate School MA Environmental Law & Policy 2014; Chatham University BA 1972

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

✊ social Activism

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✊ social Activism

most remembered for her role on the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) that was primarily responsible for reopening the Little Rock, Arkansas, public school system and bringing to a close the school district closing in 1958, following the Crisis at Little Rock Central High
her other was highly protective of her own children ( typically overdressing them in layers of heavy cotton fabric, even in the heat of summer, and discouraging them from adventurous play for fear they would be injured) and encouraged educational achievements
entered college at the early age of 15
she and other members of the juvenile court board for Pulaski County took delinquent children into their own homes to keep them out of the state reform school
fought for the creation of the Boys Industrial School and the Girls Industrial School in 1917
helped to form the African-American branch of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Little Rock which subsequently opened in 1921
her sister Mary created the Political Equality League in 1911 & she was very active in the organization
was a leader at both the state and national level in the campaign for women's suffrage
she and her sister Mary Fletcher Drennan deeded the Pike–Fletcher–Terry House to the City of Little Rock in 1964 for use by the Arkansas Arts Center which opened as the Decorative Arts Museum on March 24, 1985
was an avid writer and published many works throughout her lifetime including: "Courage!" (1938), "Cordelia, Member of the Household" (1967), "Charlotte Stephens, Little Rock’s First Black Teacher" (1973), "Life is My Song" unpublished
wrote her book "Courage!" (1938) under the pseudonym Mary Lindsey
was 1 of the founders of the Little Rock Housing Association to secure federal funds under the 1937 Housing Authority Act to combat slum housing
was active in historic preservation and the arts
her brother John Gould Fletcher received the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his poetry

Born: 1882

Country: USA

Education: Vassar College 1902

Guiliana Tesoro

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