Claim
Women "invented" things on their own
Reality
They helped with a team of men
Mrs.
Mileva Einsteinclaim that she was "the real brains behind Einstein and his theories"
Mileva and Albert met, but she did not get sufficient grades to graduate
despite "scoring higher than Albert". He wrote to her about math and
physics theories, but she responded about the children and home affairs. https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/04/18/116220/did-einsteins-first-wife-secretly-coauthor-his-1905-relativity-paper/
Hedy Lamarr "invented" the radio
guidance system for torpedoes
Lamarr
assisted her boy friend, inventor George
Antheil who developed
a radio guidance system using frequency-hopping
spread spectrum technology
for Allied torpedoes
in 1941.
wikipedia.org/George_Antheil
Hedy, an actress with no science degree, had no other patents.
George was an inventor, composer, and gentleman for putting her name on
his patent application to get a happy Hedy that night.
Rosalind
Franklin "discovered" the Double Helix structure
s
Rosalind worked (along with men) on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA. Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discover of the DNA double helix.
Lisa
Meitner "discovered" Nuclear Fission
Meitner was part of the team
(of men), including Otto Hahn who discovered and
explained nuclear fission and foresaw its explosive potential. She
refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, declaring, "I will
have nothing to do with a bomb!"https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/lise-meitner
https://filmsforthought.com/completed-films/the-path-to-nuclear-fission-the-story-of-lise-meitner-and-otto-hahn/
Margaret Knight "invented" the
paper bag machine which is still the same design used today
In 1852,
Francis Wolle, a schoolteacher, invented the first machine to
mass-produce paper bags.[1]
Wolle and his brother patented the machine and founded the Union Paper Bag
Company in Bethlehem PAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wolle
20 years later Margaret Knight moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in 1867 and was hired by the Columbia Paper Bag Company. Her job was to think of improvements.
Elizabeth
played games and refined The Landlord's Game while her real estate owning
husband Albert Wallace Phillips worked, supported her, and showed her how
landlording works. Women could not get a bank account until 1960 nor a
mortgage without a man's name until
1974. The couple worked TOGETHER to refine and co-patent it in
1924.Charles Darrow further improved it and patented Monopoly in March 1935
Monopoly was mass manufactured and marketed by Parker Brothers (men): George, Charles, and Edward Parker.
Ada Lovelace was
"the world's first computer programmer"
C
harles Babbage,
English mathematician is "the father of computers" and designed the
Analytical Engine in 1836, and wrote the first algorithms and programs for
it.
6 years later, in 1842 his friend and secretary Augusta "Ada" Byron Lovelace translated his notes, and added some thoughts about his programs. But she was obviously not the first, as some feminists claim. Her Note G is a chart, not a computer program. There were no computers to program until about 100 years later.
Samuel
Miller patented the circular saw British Patent #1152 in 1777 (earlier than
Tabitha in 1812).https://www.yorksaw.com/history-circular-saw/
http://www.edubilla.com/inventor/samuel-miller/
https://www.idesign.wiki/en/the-invention-of-circular-saw/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_saw
Marie Van Brittan Brown's husband, electronics technician Albert Brown, had 10 other patents, and invented the security system to protect his wife, then added her name to the patent like a good husband. She was a nurse, and the inspiration but not the inventor.
Womenizing Men's History again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown_and_Albert_L._Brown
https://allthatsinteresting.com/marie-van-brittan-brown
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3482037
