It’s no secret that women are fairly impressive beings.
As if the fact that we create human life IN OUR BODIES isn’t proof enough, there’s also the many things we’ve achieved throughout history despite not always being considered as capable of doing so.
Thankfully, it’s much easier for women to be recognised for our efforts nowadays. This is why women who lived before us and were able to develop game-changing inventions is that much more impressive.
Here are just a few of the things created by powerful and impressive women that are still making our lives just that little bit better each day.
Monopoly.
Monopoly: bringing families together and then tearing them apart since 1906.
This wonderful friction-filled game was created by Elizabeth Magie to educate the masses on the inherent issues of capitalism, such as land taxes and rent and land grabbing and all the other issues we’re still facing over 100 years later.
Although the game was technically ripped off by a man — whose name I will not even mention — she was paid for the patent she created in 1904.
Unfortunately, it was only $500, which is a smidge less than what she probably deserved.
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Grace Hopper didn't invent the computer - she was a programmer who developed some of the first computer languages. Charles Babbage developed the idea of the programmable computer, while Alan Turing envisioned the idea of the modern computer. A simple Wikipedia search would have shown this. Grace Hopper was an incredible and intelligent woman, but she didn't "invent the computer".
I'm interested in the syringe one, because I had thought that there were vaccinations prior to 1899, for instance small pox. Therefore I wonder how they vaccinated the people without syringes?
Re the icecream one well I am currently on a diet but feel that it would be wrong for me not to honour this woman, so am off to the freezer! (now who invented Tim Tam icecream! that's what your next article needs to be about)
The smallpox vaccine was most definitely available before 1899 but it is not administered with a syringe but with a bifurcated needle. If you look up smallpox vaccine administration, you can see pictures.
There are other vaccines that are/can be administered without a syringe too. The flu vax is sometimes offered as a mist in the US (could be here too, and in other places, but I've only heard of it in the US) and the polio vaccine can be given orally.