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Thomas Howard White (1836 - 1914)
Thomas Howard White White was an American industrialist and philanthropist. In 1876 he founded the White Sewing Machine Company in Cleveland, Ohio, predecessor of White Consolidated Indus...
Jacob Metius (c.1571 - 1628)
Jacob (Jacobus; sometimes James) Metius (after 1571–1628) was a Dutch instrument-maker and a specialist in grinding lenses. He is primarily known for the patent application he made for an optical tel...
Zacharias Janssen (c.1585 - c.1632)
Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He is associated with the invention of the first o...
Hans Lipperhey (c.1570 - 1619)
Hans Lipperhey (c. 1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or simply Lippershey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly associated with the invention of the tele...
By The author of this photograph is anonymous, but that we know it was taken c.1925 and was held in the archives of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. - This UK artistic or literary work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it is one of the following:A photograph, which has never previously been made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) and which was taken more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955); orA photograph, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955); orAn artistic work other than a photograph (e.g. a painting), or a literary work, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955).This tag can be used only when the author cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry. If you wish to rely on it, please specify in the image description the research you have carried out to find who the author was. The above is all subject to any overriding publication right which may exist. In practice, publication right will often override the first of the bullet points listed.Unpublished anonymous paintings remain in copyright until at least 1 January 2040. This tag does not apply to engravings or musical works. More information, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52474992

Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett, DBE, JP (1895 - 1957)
Caroline Harriet Haslett English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of women's rights. Born 17 August 1895, Worth, Sussex, England Died 4 January 1957 (aged 61)...

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Inventors are people who invent unique or novel devices, methods, compositions, processes or discoveries.

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Dr. Andre Cipriani, pioneered the development of the Cobalt-60 Therapy units which are used for the treatment of cancer and occupational radiation protection.

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Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974)
American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Apgar

Mary Anderson (1866 - 1953)
American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist, and most notably the inventor of what became known as the windshield wiper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(inventor)

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923
English electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton

Maria E. Beasley (née Hauser; c. 1836–1913)
American entrepreneur and inventor. Her primary success as an inventor rose from a specialty in barrel-making machines and processes. Life raft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_E._Beasley

Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (née Liebscher), January 31, 1873 – June 29, 1950)
German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionising the process of coffee brewing with her invention of the coffee filter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitta_Bentz

Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 - 1999)
American nurse, her husband Albert L. Brown, an electronics technician. In 1966 they invented an audio-visual home security system. That same year they applied for a patent for their security system. It was granted three years later in 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown_and_Albert_L....

Josephine Cochrane (1839 - 1913)
American inventor who invented the first successful hand-powered dishwasher, which she designed and then constructed with the assistance of mechanic George Butters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane

Jeanne Lee Crews (born 1940)
American aerospace engineer at NASA, and also one of the first female engineers to join the agency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Lee_Crews

Marion Donovan (1917 - 1998)
Marion O'Brien Donovan (October 15, 1917 – November 4, 1998)
American inventor and entrepreneur. who secured a total of 20 patents for her creations. In 1946, she created a reusable, impermeable diaper cover. Ultimately, this led to the invention of the disposable paper diaper, which was eventually commercialised by Victor Mills, the creator of Pampers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Donovan

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958)
British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett DBE, JP (17 August 1895 – 4 January 1957) was an English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of women's rights. One of her recommendations was a new plug and socket standard, the first requirement for which was to ensure the safety of young children - it is of considerable importance that the contacts of the socket-outlet should be protected by shutters or other like means, or by the inherent design of the socket outlet. The result was BS 1363.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Haslett

Beulah Louise Henry (1887 - 1973)
American inventor who made extensive contributions to consumer products and manufacturing technology. Her first patent, for a vacuum ice cream freezer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Louise_Henry

Grace Hopper neé Murray (1906 - 1992)
American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral.[1] She was a pioneer of computer programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Nancy Johnson – The ice cream maker

Margaret Eloise Knight (1838 - 1914)
American inventor, notably of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_E._Knight

Stephanie Kwolek (1923 - 2014)
Polish-American chemist best known for inventing Kevlar (poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kwolek

Hedy Lamarr (1914 - 2000) Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
Austrian-born American actress and inventor who co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips (née Magie); May 9, 1866 – March 2, 1948)
American game designer, writer, feminist, and Georgist. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly, to illustrate teachings of the progressive era economist Henry George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie

Mary Sherman Morgan (1921 - 2004)
American rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan

Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 - 1871)
French naturalist was famous in her day for an invention that allowed people to study marine life more easily: the aquarium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Villepreux-Power

Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903 - 1977)
American chef, known for her innovations in the baking field. She pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Graves_Wakefield

Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919)
American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. developed her own line of hair care products specifically designed for African American hair, and branded them with her new identity as Madam C. J. Walker

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