Famous Inventions
Mary Anderson, noticing trolley drivers struggling to see past sleet, developed the first effective THIS and owned a patent for it in 1903 that expired before Cadillac installed it as standard equipment in 1922
What is windshield wipers?
Currently the CEO of THIS non-profit organization for girls, Sylvia Acevedo introduced badges in engineering, robotics, and cybersecurity to encourage STEM learning
What is Girl Scouts ?
Josephine Cochrane invented the world's first commercially successful version of THIS appliance, which was showcased at the 1893 World's Fair
What is a dishwasher?
Samantha Cristoforetti, a pilot, engineer, and astronaut with the Italian Space Agency, was the first person in the world to do THIS in space
What is brew espresso coffee?
Employee #20 at Google, SHE led the development of Gmail and Google web search interfaces and later became the CEO of Yahoo! for 5 years
Who is Marissa Mayer?
In 1811, Sarah Guppy patented the safe piling of bridge foundations, which was later used in the development of THIS bridge in Bristol, UK
What is the Clifton Suspension Bridge?
With a Master's from THIS famous university and a career at GE, Edith Clarke accepted a teaching post at UT Austin and became the first female electrical engineering professor in the U.S.
What is MIT?
The daughter of Lord Byron, SHE developed the first algorithm and is known as the world's first programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Gwynne Shotwell was employee #11 at SpaceX and is its current President and Chief ______ ________ (C-suite title)
What is Operating Officer (COO) ?
CEO of General Motors since 2014, Mary Barra has the highest compensation of any leader of a Detroit Big Three automaker. THIS was her college major.
What is electrical engineering?
Dr. Patricia Bath, chair of Ophthalmology at Drew-UCLA invented and patented a new device, called laserphaco probe, in 1986 which soon became used worldwide for THIS
What is cataract surgery?
Lillian Gilbreth ingeniously tweaked THIS everyday item for hands-free operation by adding a _____, in addition to her pioneering time-motion study combining psychology and industrial engineering
What is a trashcan and foot pedal?
Mary A Delaney patented the first design for THIS in the US in 1908, a key improvement to the original that every dog owner appreciates
What is a retractable dog leash?
THIS astronaut had NASA Ames' latest supercomputer named after her in 2004. The supercomputer was the first in a 20 node network with the power to model Earth's climate and shuttle simulations.
Who is Kalpana Chawla?
CEO of Autodesk from 1992 to 2006, SHE turned it from a PC design software company to the giant CAD modeling software company it is today
Who is Carol Bartz?
SHE invented a patented central heating furnace using natural gas, which reduced the risk of home fires as compared to wood or gas heating in 1919
Who is Alice H. Parker?
A British mechanical engineer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment during WWII, SHE not only improved engine design to save lives, but she was also the fastest female motorbike driver at a record 106 mph
Who is Beatrice Shilling
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Magie created and patented the first board game designed to show the injustice of the land grab system, called The Landlord's Game. Ironically, her game was modified into Monopoly but her game rights were purchased for just $____ dollars.
What is $500?
SHE is the Director General of CERN, the top particle physics lab in the world, and led project Atlas which found the famous Higgs boson particle
Who is Fabiola Gianotti?
Named one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2017 by Fortune, Lisa Su is the CEO of THIS semiconductor chip company
What is AMD?
Friends with Howard Hughes, THIS beautiful film star of the 1930s and 1940s designed a patented frequency-hopping device to avoid signal jamming for the military, which ultimately led to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth technology
Who is Hedy Lamarr? Married names also acceptable
With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Reates Curry works on advanced driver safety innovation at THIS company and has won the company's Technology Award twice
What is Ford?
US Navy Rear Admiral Grace ______, invented the world's first compiler, software that translates programming languages into machine code that a computer can understand
Who is Hopper?
An astronaut with almost 1000 space hours and former Director of the Johnson Space Center, SHE also co-developed 3 patents on optical equipment for better quality images from further away in space
Who is Ellen Ochoa?
SHE invented and patented a correcting liquid, named Liquid Paper, to cover up typewriter mistakes. She started her own company in 1968 and sold it to Gillette in 1979 for $47.5 M
Who is Bette Nesmith Graham?