Women Inventors Behind Famous Patents

Mary Anderson patented the windshield wiper in 1903 after watching trolley drivers struggle in snow. Josephine Cochrane patented the dishwasher in 1886 and sold hotels on it. Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar at DuPont in 1965, saving thousands of officers.

Ada Lovelace wrote the notes and Grace Hopper built the compilers that underpin computing patent lineages. Mary Sherman Morgan and her hydyne fuel lifted the first US satellite. Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency hopping, the ancestor of spread-spectrum WiFi and Bluetooth.

Patent offices undervalued them; history should not..