{"id":31823,"date":"2015-12-26T23:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T22:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=31823"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T22:59:19","slug":"entrepreneur-alert-womens-inventions-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/entrepreneur-alert-womens-inventions-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Alert: Women&#8217;s Inventions Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0The Car Heater<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/entrepreneur-alert-womens-inventions-part-i\/the-car-heater\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Car-Heater-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"The Car Heater\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Car-Heater-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Car-Heater-500x248.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Car-Heater.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all owe our thanks to Margaret A Wilcox who invented the car heater in 1893!<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Monopoly<\/p>\n<p>This popular board game was designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, originally called the Landlord\u2019s Game. The purpose of this game was to expose the injustices of unchecked capitalism.\u00a0 Her game was ripped off by Charles Darrow who sold it to Parker Brother\u2019s 30 years later.\u00a0 However Parker Brothers later paid Elizabeth $500 for her game. Gee Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>3. The Fire Escape<\/p>\n<p>The fire escape was invented by Anna Connelly in 1887<\/p>\n<p>4. The Life Raft<\/p>\n<p>The life saving Life Raft was invented by Maria Beasely\u00a0 in 1882. (Maria also invented a machine that makes barrels)<\/p>\n<p>5. Residential Solar Heating<\/p>\n<p>Solar heating for residential housing was invented by Dr Maria Telkes in 1947.\u00a0 Dr. Telkes was a Psychiatrist in addition to being a\u00a0 Solar-Power Pioneer<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 The Medical Syringe<\/p>\n<p>The medical syringe which could be operated with only one hand was invented by a woman by the name of Letitia Geer in 1899<\/p>\n<p>7. The Modern Electric Refrigerator<\/p>\n<p>The electric refrigerator was invented by Florence Parpart in 1914 (Florence also invented an improved street cleaning machine in addition to the refrigerator)<\/p>\n<p>8. The Ice Cream Maker<\/p>\n<p>The ice cream maker was invented by a woman named Nancy Johnson in 1843. Her patented design is still used today!<\/p>\n<p>9. The Computer Algorithm<\/p>\n<p>Ada Lovelace is essentially the first computer programmer due to her work with Charles Babbage at the University of London in 1842. In fact her notes was an essential key to helping Alan Turing\u2019s work on the first modern computers in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>10. Telecommunications Technology<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Telecommunication Technology developed by Dr Shirley Jackson include portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fibre optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving credit where credit is due. 1. \u00a0The Car Heater We all owe our thanks to Margaret A Wilcox who invented the car heater in 1893! 2.\u00a0 Monopoly This popular board game was designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/entrepreneur-alert-womens-inventions-part-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31830,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions\/31830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}