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Trivia on Women Inventors! In Honor of Mother's Day :->

May 11th, 2007 at 03:06 pm

End of the week fun-

Name one item invented by a woman on the subject of:

(1) automotive parts

(2) household appliances

Post here and I'll put up answers later today!

7 Responses to “Trivia on Women Inventors! In Honor of Mother's Day :->”

  1. boomeyers Says:
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    The hand cranked ice cream freezer was patented to Nancy Johnson in 1843.
    Neat trivia question!

  2. pretty cheap jewelry Says:
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    Hmmmm that is not the one I had in mind, but you are thinking along the right lines ;-)

  3. newlyfrugal Says:
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    Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903.

    The dishwasher was invented by Josephine Cochran in 1889.

  4. pretty cheap jewelry Says:
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    Ohhhhhh you are right on both accounts Newly!

    I try to make these questions hard to google ;-

  5. Amber Says:
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    Dorothy Levit came up with the idea of the rear view mirror, she suggested that women should carry a hand held mirror to see behind them; and

    In 1919, Alice Parker of Morristown, New Jersey, invented a new and improved gas heating furnace that provided central heating she worked for Madame C.J. Walker, the first African American millionaire

  6. Amber Says:
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    By the wy this was fun, maybe we should continue with this idea...

  7. pretty cheap jewelry Says:
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    Several other items were supposedly invented by women, as mentioned on a radio show I heard, but I couldn't verify them. They were all convenience common sense things except one (it's obvious):

    refridgerator (probably a combination of inventors)
    circular saw (unpatented by a Quaker woman)
    bra

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