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Her research enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fibre optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting. She is....

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Shirley Jackson

Gertrude B. Elion

Marie Curry

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, a theoretical physicist and famous black inventor, has been credited with making many advances in science.


Dr. Jackson conducted breakthrough basic scientific 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.

Source :

https://www.black-inventor.com/dr-shirley-jackson


She is best known for her trailblazing contributions to computer programming, software development, and the design and implementation of programming languages.

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Edith Flanigen

Katharine Blodgett

Grace Hopper

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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992) was a computer pioneer and naval officer. She earned a master’s degree (1930) and a Ph.D. (1934) in mathematics from Yale. Hopper is best known for her trailblazing contributions to computer programming, software development, and the design and implementation of programming languages. A maverick and an innovator, she enjoyed long and influential careers in the U.S. Navy and the computer industry.

Source : https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper

One of her inventions that surely impacted her own life and others was her barrel making machine, which was patented in 1878 as her first patented invention

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Maria Beasley

Margaret Knight

Marion Donovan

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Beasley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she pursued her life’s work.

One of Beasley’s inventions that surely impacted her own life and others was her barrel making machine, which was patented in 1878 as her first patented invention. Her barrel making machine earned her “an unprecedented payday of over $20,000 a year,” which would translate to well over $450,000 today.

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https://intrans.iastate.edu/news/maria-beasley-engineering-dynamo/

In 1965, she created the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness. She is...

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Barbara S. Askins

Stephanie Kwolek

Stephanie Kwolek

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Stephanie Kwolek was an organic chemist, best known for inventing Kevlar in 1965. Kevlar is an immensely strong plastic, first used as a replacement for steel reinforcing strips in racing car tires, and now used in a large number of applications where high strength is required without high weight.

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https://www.famousscientists.org/stephanie-kwolek/#:~:text=Lived%201923%20%E2%80%93%202014.,is%20required%20without%20high%20weight.


She had invented a new technique for weaving straw with silk or thread, and First Lady Dolley Madison praised her for boosting the nation’s hat industry. She is...

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Mary Kies

Margaret Knight

Helen Fre

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Mary Kies was an early 19th-century American who received the first patent granted to a woman by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, on May 5, 1809. Kies had invented a new technique for weaving straw with silk or thread, and First Lady Dolley Madison praised her for boosting the nation’s hat industry. Unfortunately, the patent file was destroyed in the great Patent Office fire in 1836.

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https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/11/mary-kies.html

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