1. Cookies and milk a tradition made possible by Ruth Wakefield

Ruth Wakefield had worked as a dietitian and food lecturer before buying an old toll house outside of Boston with her husband. Traditionally, toll houses were places weary travelers paid their road tolls, grabbed a quick bite and fed their horses. Wakefield and her husband converted the toll house into an inn with a restaurant. One day in 1930, Wakefield was baking up a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies for her guests. The recipe called for melted chocolate, but Wakefield had run out of baker's chocolate. She took a Nestle chocolate bar, crumbled it into pieces and threw it into her batter, expecting the chocolate pieces to melt during baking. Instead, the chocolate held its shape, and the chocolate chip cookie was born.

2. Admiral Hopper at her retirement ceremony in 1986

When we think about advancements in computers, we tend to think about men like Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Bill Gates. But Admiral Grace Murray Hopper deserves credit for her role in the computer industry. Admiral Hopper joined the military in 1943 and was stationed at Harvard University, where she worked on IBM's Harvard Mark I computer, the first large-scale computer in the United States. She was the third person to program this computer, and she wrote a manual of operations that lit the path for those that followed her. In the 1950s, Admiral Hopper invented the compiler, which translates English commands into computer code. This device meant that programmers could create code more easily and with fewer errors. Hopper's second compiler, the Flow-Matic, was used to program UNIVAC I and II, which were the first computers available commercially.

3. Sarah Mather patented the submarine telescope and lamp.

When Martha Coston was widowed in 1847, she was only 21 years old. She had four children to support, but she hadn't a clue about how to do so. She was flipping through her dead husband's notebooks when she found plans for a flare system that ships could use to communicate at night. Coston requested the system be tested, but it failed.
Coston was undeterred. She spent the next 10 years revising and perfecting her husband's design for a colored flare system. She consulted with scientists and military officers, but she couldn't figure out how to produce flares that were bright and long-lasting while remaining easy to use at the spur of the moment. One night she took her children to see a fireworks display, and that's when she hit upon the idea of applying some pyrotechnic technology to her flare system. The flare system finally worked, and the U.S. Navy bought it.

4. Margaret Knight's invention led to the ubiquitous question, "Paper or plastic?"

Margaret Knight didn't invent the paper bag, but those first paper bags weren't all that useful for carrying things. Knight realized that paper bags should have a square bottom; when weight was distributed across the base in this way, the bags could carry more things.
In 1870, she created a wooden machine that would cut, fold and glue the square bottoms to paper bags. While she was working on an iron prototype of the machine to use for her patent application, she discovered that her design had been stolen by a man named Charles Annan, who had seen her wooden machine a few months earlier. She filed a patent interference suit against Annan, who claimed that there was no way that a woman could have developed such a complex machine. Knight used her notes and sketches to prove otherwise, and she was granted the patent for the device in 1871.

5. When Anderson first proposed the windshield wipers, some people thought it would be too distracting to drivers.

Anderson received the patent for her device in 1903; just 10 years later, thousands of Americans owned a car with her invention.

6. Bulletproof vests are now standard equipment for police officers by Kwolek

Stephanie Kwolek took a position at DuPont in 1946 so she could save enough moneyto go to medical school. In 1964, she was still there, researching how to turn polymers into extra strong synthetic fibers. Kwolek was working with polymers that had rod-like molecules that all lined up in one direction.

7. Mary Kies was the first American woman to earn a patent in her own name. In 1809, she developed a way of weaving straw into hats that was an economic boon for New England.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/10-things-that-women-invented.htm

Petty inventions built on men's inventions!
Edit: nowadays, women prefer to invent food and drinks! e.g amala + efo riro and the read deal b say hem fit wash ... ....put join am

big-t:
Petty inventions built on men's inventions!

Why can't you appreciate the little one they did? Remember millions of women are outside.

You call it petty but I believe your first/next car will be a bullet-proof one.

Wat a man can do?

Emusan:

Why can't you appreciate the little one they did? Remember millions of women are outside.

You call it petty but I believe your first/next car will be a bullet-proof one.

then they shld stop sayin ''what a man can do, a woman can do better'' they should rather say ''what a man is doing, a woman can support''

BrB

IN NIGERIA ALL THEY EVER INVENTED WAS FOOD
STANDARD ISSUE WHUPPING TO SET THE KIDS STRAIGHT
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY WHERE THEY CANT COOK
WORK, OR SET THE KIDS STRAIGHT.....CANT DO SH**
AND THEY WANT RESPECT

Alimony nko?

Koste Onirin / push up bra nko?

Butt pads nko?

Fake Eyelashes nko?

Child support nko?

As in ONLY??

MEN invented EVERYTHING ELSE .

Just 7 inventions...

Only 7

If we decide to list all the tings invented by men, Seun will need to buy a new server

Mscheww...

Lies is conspicuously absent from that list.

Who invented G-String?

Babzilla: IN NIGERIA ALL THEY EVER INVENTED WAS FOOD
STANDARD ISSUE WHUPPING TO SET THE KIDS STRAIGHT
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY WHERE THEY CANT COOK
WORK, OR SET THE KIDS STRAIGHT.....CANT DO SH**
AND THEY WANT RESPECT

Na wah for you oooo.

Thongs and G-strings.

Child support.

Peruvian hair.

delors: Who invented G-String?

I'm almost positive it was a man.

What of Marie Curie, she found radium.

These female inventions are just a tiny fraction of what men invented.

big-t:

then they shld stop sayin ''what a man can do, a woman can do better'' they should rather say ''what a man is doing, a woman can support''

Eziokwu

A woman named Mary Phelps Jacobs invented a great accessory, the BRA amazingly a man named Frederick Mellinger invented the push up bra

50calibre: What of Marie Curie, she founded radium.

These female inventions are just a tiny fraction of what men invented.

Women were prohibited from doing many things until well into the last century. What do you expect?

big-t:

then they shld stop sayin ''what a man can do, a woman can do better'' they should rather say ''what a man is doing, a woman can support''

Just wait... They will add sexist to your name

texanomaly:
Women were prohibited from doing many things until well into the last century. What do you expect?

You could still come up with something to show that women can do better

50calibre: What of Marie Curie, she founded radium.

These female inventions are just a tiny fraction of what men invented.

Mehn

see grammar

You forgot to add. Women invented babies through their wombs. God bless my Mother.

Akara (bean cake) was invented by women. -:Winks:-

What is really the reason behind this thread cause I dont really get it?

If it's an attempt to praise women then it's dead on arrival.

Behind every successful man there is a woman; thus the most men who were great inventors had a woman at the background who made it possible

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There is a particular invention that should be added to the list but if I mentioned it, it could cause more commotion than an elephant in a China shop.

kokoye: Alimony nko?

Koste Onirin / push up bra nko?

Butt pads nko?

Fake Eyelashes nko?

Child support nko?

You dey vex. Kilode?

At OP,

Nice one. Women are smooth and silent operators. Men are show me, see me, i am important. SMH

texanomaly:
Women were prohibited from doing many things until well into the last century. What do you expect?

..... And way hav dey done after the ban has bin lifted? Am not against women oo..... Buh women and some dum dum guyz overhype women.... I women are sort of supportin striker (like ideye) not the main man (like eminike)

siddiq202:

You could still come up with something to show that women can do better

Alphabet blocks Adeline D. T. Whitney 1882

Apgar tests, which evaluate a baby’s health upon birth Virginia Apgar 1952

Chocolate-chip cookies Ruth Wakefield 193

Circular saw Tabitha Babbitt 1812

Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872

Disposable diaper Marion Donovan 1950

Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917

Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881

Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917

Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887

Globes Ellen Fitz 1875

Ironing board Sarah Boone 1892

Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966

Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882

Liquid Paper®, a quick-drying liquid used to correct mistakes printed on paper Bessie Nesmith 1951
Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879

Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899
Paper-bag-making machine Margaret Knight 1871

Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891

Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1904

Scotchgard™ fabric protector Patsy O. Sherman 1956

Snugli® baby carrier Ann Moore 1965

Street-cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900

Submarine lamp and telescope Sarah Mather 1845

Windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903


Happy now?

rozayx5:

Mehn

see grammar

He is right. You are the olodo.

50calibre: What of Marie Curie, she founded radium.

These female inventions are just a tiny fraction of what men invented.

@Bolded,"discovered" is what you mean and it eventually killed her via cancer. Not a very nice discovery.