Helen Augusta Blanchard (1840-1922) patents, 22 of which involved improvements to sewing machines. first zigzag sewing machine. 1873 zigzagger After…
Martha Coston
Martha Coston (1826-1904) patent for her Pyrotechnic Night Signals on April 5, 1859 By 1859, the success of the signal…
Marion Mahony Griffin
Marion Mahony Griffin – One of the first female licensed architects in the U.S., Marion Mahony Griffin was also a…
Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan – Armed with both a civil engineering degree and an architecture degree, Morgan became one of the most…
Ellen Biddle Shipman
Ellen Biddle Shipman – landscape architecture. She was known for her formal gardens like the Henry W. Longfellow Place in…
Emily Warren Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling (1843–1903). – Despite a lack of formal engineering training, Emily Roebling’s name will be forever associated with…
Margaret Ingels
Margaret Ingels studied engineering at the University of Kentucky, and became the first woman to receive a graduate degree in…
Mary G. Ross
Mary Golda Ross (August 9, 1908 – April 29, 2008) was the first known Native American female engineer, and the…
Judith Love Cohen
Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer and author. Cohen worked as an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile,…
Ethel H. Bailey
Ethel H. Bailey was an American mechanical engineer who began her working life in aviation and went on to develop…
Elsie Eaves
Elsie Eaves (May 5, 1898 – March 27, 1983) was the first female associate member of the American Society of…
Katharine Stinson
Katharine Stinson was an American aeronautical engineer and the Federal Aviation Administration’s first female engineer. Born in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina…
Bertha Lamme Feicht
Bertha Lamme Feicht (December 16, 1869 – November 20, 1943) was an American engineer. In 1893, she became the first…
Judith Resnik
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died…
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983…
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