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Top 10 fun facts about women engineers

2/17/2018

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  1. Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903, years before Henry Ford industrialized automobile production.
  2. The first "computer program" was designed by a famous poet's daughter in 1843.
  3. Hedy Lamarr, a famous 1930s movie actress, made significant engineering contributions to today's wireless networks.
  4. In 1918, Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT, and later became the first female Professor of Electrical Engineering in the US.
  5. Eli Whitney’s wife actually invented the cotton gin, as a convenience tool around the house, but women couldn’t patent, so her husband got all the credit.
  6. Emily Roebling was the Chief Engineer during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883, when her husband became sick, and so she lead the construction by carrying out her own studies of technical issues, materials, stress analysis, construction and calculations.
  7. Kate Gleason is the only woman in the US to have a college of engineering named in her honor ~ RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
  8. Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science.
  9. Martha Coston needed a way to support herself and her children, so she developed a signaling flare system that’s used by the U.S. military and known as Coston flares.  
  10. “By learning to create technology, girls learn to speak up.” - Regina Agyare, Founder of software company Soronko Solutions

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1 Comment
Ellen
5/28/2019 10:50:16 am

Lists highlighting women's accomplishments should use their names, not define them by their relationship to men in their lives.
Ada Lovelace wasn't just a "famous poet's daughter," she was well known in her own right.
If "Eli Whitney's wife" invented the cotton gin, maybe include that her name was Henrietta.

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