Stolen! 
Women Inventors--Lost and Found

Shirley Jackson

Stephanie Kwolek

Nancy Johnson

Grace Hopper

Margaret Knight

Lillian Gilbreth

Throughout history, women have often been sidelined, either due to peer pressure, lack of opportunity, or flat-out sexism. And many times, women who invented items — from disposable diapers to Monopoly — weren't given credit for their work. Women are responsible for early sketches of the computer, the discovery of the DNA double helix, and even splitting the atom. But men claimed those advancements as their own. This program explores 22 things most people don’t know were invented or discovered by women.

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Web Resources: General Print

UNKNOWN INVENTORS: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/14-things-you-didnt-know-were-invented-by-women/ TEN INVENTORS: https://inventionland.com/blog/ten-female-inventors-who-changed-our-lives/WOMEN INVENTORS: https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/? TEN INVENTORS: https://www.one.org/stories/10-female-inventors-you-should-definitely-know-about/ FIVE WOMEN INVENTORS: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/five-women-inventors-you-didnt-learn-about-in-history-class-180979844/ COUNTRY BY COUNTRY WOMEN INVENTORS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_innovators_and_inventors_by_country LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCE GUIDE: https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-science/inventors ELEVEN INVENTIONS: https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/11-inventions-you-didnt-know-women-had-a-hand-in-making TWENTY INVENTIONS: https://www.businessinsider.com/inventions-by-women-2017-8TWENTY INVENTIONS: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53164/19-things-you-might-not-know-were-invented-women NINE INVENTIONS: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-40923649 NINE INVENTIONS: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/everyday-things-women-inventors-inventions/ “The Woman Inventor” (Smithsonian): General 

Elizabeth Magie

Mary Anderson

Josephine Cochrane

Web Resources: General Video

FIVE INVENTIONS:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9FSXw422T0 TEN INVENTIONS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxoHuQNBwFUTEN WOMEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ2n7RsOLPUWOMEN IN SCIENCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53Ks824GTATEN BLACK WOMEN INVENTORS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4iL1B-tBE TEN FEMALE INVENTORS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_qR-XuZH14 TEN COOL INVENTIONS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJUOEWNwS-gTEN INVENTIONS CREDITED TO MEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkW5WkcpNfkTEN BLACK WOMEN INVENTORS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sulLvR0u-2Q 

Marion Donovan

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

Sarah Boone

Web Resources: Specific Inventors

SHIRLEY JACKSON: https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/12/19/146775/the-remarkable-career-of-shirley-ann-jackson/
SHIRLEY JACKSON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson 
NANCY JOHNSON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Maria_Donaldson_Johnson
NANCY JOHNSON: https://invention.si.edu/inventive-queens-ices 
MARGARET KNIGHT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_E._Knight
MARGARET KNIGHT: https://www.invent.org/blog/inventors/margaret-e-knight-paper-pag 
STEPHANIE KWOLEK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kwolek
STEPHANIE KWOLEK: https://sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/stephanie-l-kwolek/ 
LILLIAN GILBRETH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Moller_Gilbreth
LILLIAN GILBRETH: https://www.womenshistory.org/lillian-moller-gilbreth
GRACE HOPPER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
GRACE HOPPER: https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper 
LIZZIE MAGIE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie 
LIZZIE MAGIE: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/business/behind-monopoly-an-inventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html 
MARY ANDERSON: https://www.thoughtco.com/mary-anderson-inventor-of-the-windshield-wiper-1992654 
MARY ANDERSON: https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/536835744/alabama-woman-stuck-in-nyc-traffic-in-1902-invented-the-windshield-wiper 
JOSEPHINE COCHRANE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane 
JOSEPHINE COCHRANE: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/josephine-cochrane 
MARION DONOVAN: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/marion-donovan 
MARION DONOVAN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Donovan 
JEANNE VILLEPREUX-POWER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Villepreux-Power 
JEANNE VILLEPREUX-POWER: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jeanne-Villepreux-Power

Anna Connelly

Maria Beasley

Olga Gonzalez Sanabria

SARAH BOONE: https://www.biography.com/inventors/sarah-boone
SARAH BOONE: https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2021/08/05/sarah-boone-inventor-ironing-board-and-first-black/ 
ANNA CONNELLY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Connelly#
ANNA CONNELLY: https://www.eastcoastfireescapes.com/fire-escapes-and-eminism-the-irst-ire-escape-invented-by-a-woman/ 
MARIA BEASLEY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_E._Beasley
MARIA BEASLEY: https://intrans.iastate.edu/news/maria-beasley-engineering-dynamo/ 
OLGA GONZALEZ-SANABRIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_D._Gonz%C3%A1lez-Sanabria
OLGA GONZALEZ-SANABRIA: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/glenn-history/hall-of-fame/biographies/olga-gonzalez-sanabria/ 
PATRICIA BATH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath 
PATRICIA BATH: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_26.html 
HEDY LAMARR:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
HEDY LAMARR: https://www.hedylamarr.com/ 
ADA LOVELACE:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace 
ADA LOVELACE: https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/ada-lovelace 
MELITTA BENTZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitta_Bentz 
MELITTA BENTZ: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/obituaries/melitta-bentz-overlooked.html 
ALICE PARKER: https://energynews.us/2022/02/28/what-we-know-about-alice-parker-a-hidden-figure-in-modern-heating/
ALICE PARKER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_H._Parker
ROSALIND FRANKLIN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin 
ROSALIND FRANKLIN: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5 
ROSALIND FRANKLIN: https://time.com/5793551/rosalind-franklin-100-women-of-the-year/ 
JULIA CHILD:  https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-and-the-oss-recipe-for-shark-repellent/
JULIA CHILD: https://www.history.com/news/julia-child-oss-spy-wwii-shark-repellent 

Patricia Bath

Hedy Lamarr

Ada, Lady Lovelace

Web Resources: Selected Inventor Videos

ROSALIND FRANKLIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiME-W58KpUROSALIND FRANKLIN:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIP0lYrdirISTEPHANIE KWOLEK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dX3Z5CyF3c&t=113s MARY ANDERSON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrorVTgXcoADA LOVELACE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBbVbqRvqTM ADA LOVELACE (use CC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfE1ITDZ6E HEDY LAMARR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rlXHNeQD-s&t=1sHEDY LAMARR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmN79HAzN3gGRACE HOPPER:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sNuPYJpSCI PATRICIA BATH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcE_QMTBNW4LILLIAN GILBRETH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RlfBdLvE8 JULIA CHILD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgTm8qynMk 
MARION DONOVAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRdrvE3ASc 