Famous Inventions
Mary Anderson, noticing trolley drivers struggling to see past sleet, developed the first effective THIS and owned a patent for it. Later, it became a standard part of every car.
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 developed Gmail into the email service you know it as today. She was also the CEO of Yahoo!
Who is Marissa Mayer?
In 1811, SHE was one of the first women to patent a bridge design that included a safe way to make sure its foundation was strong.
Who is Sarah Guppy?
With a Master's from MIT and a long career at General Electric, Edith Clarke patented a graphical calculator that helped solve power transmission line problems. She was a pioneer in THIS field of engineering.
What is electrical?
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) ?
Mary Barra majored in electrical engineering and went on to be the highest paid CEO out of the Detroit Big Three automakers. Which company is she CEO of?
General Motors
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? Cataracts are cloudy films that cover the lens of your eye making it hard to see, especially in old age
Lillian Gilbreth invented foot-pedal trash cans and refrigerator shelves! She was also the first person to apply THIS very different field to industrial engineering practices
What is Psychology?
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?
Carol Bartz had the vision to turn Autodesk into the famous computer-aided design (CAD) software company it is today. THESE engineers use Autodesk often.
What are mechanical, biomedical, and product development engineers?
SHE invented a patented central heating furnace using natural gas, which reduced the risk of home fires
Who is Alice H. Parker?
A British mechanical engineer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, SHE not only improved engine design to save lives, but she was a motorbike racer with a top speed of 106 mph
Who is Beatrice Shilling
The original, board game about property wasn't Monopoly; it was The Landlord's Game designed and patented by Elizabeth (Lizzie) Magie. Her game rights were purchased for $____ dollars while the modified version of her game, Monopoly, made millions
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 AMD, a semiconductor chip company. Semiconductors are designed and manufactured by THESE engineers
Who are Electrical, Computer Engineering, and/or Process engineers? (Any of these answers is acceptable)
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 famous car company, winning their Technology Award twice
What is Ford?
US Navy Rear Admiral Grace ______, invented the world's first compiler. Compilers are critical pieces of software that translate 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 was a successful inventor, business owner, and donated to charity. After inventing Liquid Paper, a correcting liquid to cover up typewriter mistakes, her company produced 25 million bottles of it. She later sold the business for $47.5 million dollars!
Who is Bette Nesmith Graham?