Women Traded Cooking and Cleaning for Blowjobs
Ever wonder why the only place you can get a home cooked, fresh baked apple pie these days is at Marie Calendar’s or at your grandmother’s house?
It’s because during a movement called “Women’s Liberation”, women traded cooking and cleaning for blowjobs
Does anyone also remember when men worldwide exchanged being the sole breadwinner of the house for listening to their woman’s endless screed of woman problems?
No, no one does. That’s because it never happened.
Men don’t operate like that. All of us work on one principle: always going up and always going faster — and better whenever possible, which to a man is all the time. That means we don’t get to trade shit we don’t want to do for things like are easier, like how today’s modern, “liberated” women traded cooking and cleaning for blowjobs.
How typical of the laziness of the female species. When men are requested to do something in addition to what they’re already doing, they just say, “Well I guess I better do that then.” Then they fucking do it.
Women, however, ration their time out in bits and pieces like it was worth half a damn in the first place. The whole thing is amateur and childish, really. Imagine if men worked that way. When we men invented farming and agriculture, we would have just stopped hunting all together and became a veganous species of some kind.
Would you like from fries with your Big Mac? No, because there’s no such thing as a Big Mac in a world without meat. And that’s exactly what we would have if women ran the show. No meat, just a bunch of aimless dreams and junior high grab-ass horseshit.
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Wolfe, could you please explain what BDS stands for? Or is it another cultural thingy?
One non-fruitless comment. Generally quite well said.
And I dare say society oppressed men as well.
Samantha said
You’d be surprised. The prevailing attitudes are quite negative in many environs.
I think that would be the female voice. And I believe Odysseus holds prior art/knowledge relating to that discovery.
Seriously, Muffy most of your spam is rubbish and only proves the point further.
Geeza’s comment on modesty: heh.
Samantha’s comment on not being as inventive doesn’t make women any less (badly worded as it was) is essentially true, assuming you aren’t comparing inventiveness. Excessive creativity can be a bad thing. Lot more ‘crazy inventors’ that are male than are female. That said, were it not for man’s inventiveness, we probably still wouldn’t have come down from the trees, much less figured out that fire thing.
Muffy said:
Or even manual dexterity ones like typing.
Well if it were the 50’s, you’d be a John Bircher. If it were the 70’s you’d be a communist (OK, they called them Marxists). Since it’s the early 21st century, no doubt a victom of BDS.
-wolfe
i’m sorry - this is where i prove your theory - i’m an idiot at math, i assume twenty percent, means two out of ten.
and you’re right, i’m not sure if the twenty percent are patent holders, or merely inventors.
thanks for keeping me on my toes.
however, as i mentioned above, i provided solid examples refuting the claim that women have invented nothing.
and if women do invent a lot of garbage, imagine how much more garbage men invent - since they are still way in the lead in that respect.
i am not so niaeve as to think that my opinion counts for anything here, but i’ll put it out there anyway.
it would seem that a lot of what is presented about women can be proven.
that men have invented more.
that they demonstrate superiority in certain congnitive functions
that they are stronger
that they have more stamina
and probably a lot of things that i’m not aware of.
and it seems as if all these things can not only be proven, but leave a deomonstrable gap where women lag behind.
so, why do you have to go the whole hog, and say that women have invented nothing, are incapable of orgasm/enjoying sex, are all fascists, etc?
it seems that you have solid enough ground to stand on without the need to resort to distoring the truth.
i really do understand that you feel victimized by all the hogwash and propaganda regarding men out there.
it does seem that women are coming into ascendency, and does leave one to wonder about the merits of this uprising.
i don’t want to leave the impression that our rise is totally without merit.
in many ways, by coming here, and even bothering to leave evidence to the contraray of some of these statements, i’ve gotton in way over my head.
that battle of the sexes never really interested me.
i have always been an equal opportunity hater - hating both sexes equally.
but there’s something i hate even more, and that’s the corrupt use of any media that puts one group in a favorable light, and the other group in a questionable light - which of course, influences public opinion, and ultimately consumerism and politics.
there are definitely some forces here that are destroying this country, destroying our values, destroying our very sense of identity, and it’s time we took a look at them.
even time for me to pull my head out of the sand - hang out here for a bit in man land, and heaven forbid, even hear out the feminists.
Plus many patents are absolute shite and granted for the most stupid and useless of ideas. Inventions nontheless.
From your stats, muffy, it would seem women are inventing at a furious pace nowadays. But it’s not all about quantity, if you know what I mean.
Sure, I’d ‘love’ (note how I emulate female light use of such crucial words as love, thereby demeaning them if not outright mocking them what they stand for. This when it is one of the 10 commandments, in fact, NOT to do so - just goes to yet again show what shallow and frivolous creatures women are) a permanent wave for my pubic hair or smth. like that.
But while I wait for another brilliant woman inventor to save the day and come up with it I’ll just have to struggle and make due without, If you catch my drift.
Please excuse me if my sarcasm was out of bonds and I slipped into rudeness. I do not mean disrepect to you but rather to the particular inventor I’m mocking and your addition of her and others like her to the list.
Can’t be too careful lest Samantha labels me a disrespectful mysoginist again.
Permit me to attempt and explain what I presume she meant. ‘All female inventors’ as in all patents ever registered by women (or inherited by them?). ‘Patent holders that are female’ as in living patent holders (by inheritance or their own registration).
Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m really not sure about this, but patents are inheritable, aren’t they?
Astromuffy. You said that 20% of all inventors are female. Then you claim that 8 out of 10 patent holders are female - that sounds like a very tall tale to me because these two statistics do not add up.
I think it is you who should correct your statistics.
Then perhaps we should insert a ‘virtual’ somewhere inbetween ‘invented’ & ‘nothing’.
You seem completely content to ‘disprove myths’ by the slimmest and insignificant of margins thereby implicitely statistically confirming them through pointing out the already very few known exceptions to the rule and their, overall, less than notable achievements.
Good work. Thank you.
Well, acording to the US Patent Office it’s about 1 out of 10.
I’m not really interested in the statistics astromuffy pulls out of her fat arse, but I’d be fascinated to hear her views on killer pandas and suicide dolphins.
-Big Al
yeah luka, that’s all i’m doing - effectively refuting the claim that women have invented nothing.
and your statistic is wrong.
8 out of 10 patent holders are women now.
and the gap is quickly filling in.
Well I am all for women inventors, and they very well may increase over the next generations and by all means should be supported in their efforts.
Yet the facts are still clear: there are more male inventors than women. Sure, women do invent things, but 9 times out of 10 of known inventions have been created by men. I don’t know why - in fact, I don’t really care why. It is what it is.
You can respond in one of two ways. You could start getting wound up by this and think up all the reasons under the sun as to why women don’t invent as much - you could cite lists of women inventors and blah blah blah…. or you could accept that a lot more men than women have been inventors in the past and move on.
Samantha, my comments were not directed at you personally but on the nature of the discussion. As it happens I don’t think men are useless either but that does not mean a lot. It isn’t important what I think if there are other forces in society at large that give off a very anti-male message everyday. A lot of such messages are not obvious to see - but you cannot deny they exist. There are a lot more theories as to why the world would be a better place without men than there are of a world without women, do you not agree?
I am well aware that you were refuting the claim that women have invented nothing at all. Of course women have invented things - but to argue this gets us nowhere because the fact still stands that more men have created inventions than women.
Yes this may change, and I hope it does.
“Today, hundreds of thousands of women apply for and receive a patent every year. So the real answer to the question “how many women inventors are there?” is more than you can count and growing. About 20% of all inventors are currently female and that number should quickly rise to 50% over the next generation.”
Battery container Nancy Perkins 1986
Beehive Thiphena Hornbrook 1861
Canister vacuum Nancy Perkins 1987
Car heater Margaret Wilcox 1893
Circular saw Tabitha Babbit 1812
Computer program Augusta Ada Byron 1842
Cooking stove Elizabeth Hawk 1867
Dam and reservoir construction Harriet Strong 1887
Direct and return mailing envelope Beulah Henry 1962
Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872
Drinking fountain device Laurene O’Donnell 1985
Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917
Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881
Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917
Feedback control for data processing Erna Hoover 1971
Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887
Globes Ellen Fitz 1875
Grain storage bin Lizzie Dickelman 1920
Improved locomotive wheels Mary Jane Montgomery 1864
Improvement in dredging machines Emily Tassey 1876
Improvement in stone pavements Emily Gross 1877
Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966
Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882
Liquid Paper correction fluid Bette Nesmith Graham 1956
Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879
Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899
Mop-wringer pail Eliza Wood 1889
Oil burner Amanda Jones 1880
Permanent wave for the hair Marjorie Joyner 1928
Portable screen summer house Nettie Rood 1882
Refrigerator Florence Parpart 1914
Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891
Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1904
Safety device for elevators Harriet Tracy 1892
Street cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900
Submarine lamp and telescope Sara Mather 1870
Suspenders Laura Cooney 1896
Washing machine Margaret Colvin 1871
Windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903
Zigzag sewing machine Helen Blanchard 1873
Patricia Bath
The first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
Miriam E. Benjamin
Ms. Benjamin was the second black woman inventor to receive a patent. She received a patent for an invention she called a “Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels”.
Patricia Billings
Patricia Billings invented a indestructible and fireproof building material called Geobond®.
Katherine Blodgett
Invented the non-reflecting glass.
Bessie Blount
Blount invented a device to help disabled people eat with less difficulty.
Sarah Boone
An improvement to the ironing board was invented by African American Sarah Boone on April 26, 1892.
Rachel Fuller Brown
Rachel Brown co-invented Nystatin, the world’s first useful antifungal antibiotic.
Josephine Garis Cochran
In 1886, Josephine Cochran invented the first practical dishwasher.
Martha J. Coston
Martha Coston invented a pyrotechnic signaling system known as maritime signal flares.
Dianne Croteau
Invented Actar 911, the CPR mannequin.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie also known as Madame Curie discovered radium and furthered x-ray technology.
Marion Donovan
The convenient disposable diaper was invented by New Yorker Marion Donovan in 1950.
Gertrude Belle Elion
Elion invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine, drugs that facilitated kidney transplants and other drugs for the treatment of cancer and leukemia.
Edith Flanigen
Flanigen was the inventor of a petroleum refining method and is considered one of the most inventive chemists of all time.
Helen Free
Free was the inventor of the home diabetes test.
Sally Fox
Sally Fox invented naturally-colored cotton.
Frances Gabe
Gabe invented the “Self Cleaning House”.
Lillian Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth was an inventor, author, industrial engineer, industrial psychologist, and mother of twelve children.
Sarah E. Goode
Sarah Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent.
Bette Nesmith Graham
Graham invented liquid paper, also known as White-Out™.
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin invented livestock-handling devices.
KK Gregory
KK Gregory is the ten-year old inventor of Wristies®.
Ruth Handler
The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler.
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Elizabeth Hazen co-invented Nystatin, the world’s first useful antifungal antibiotic.
Beulah Henry
All told, Henry made about 110 inventions and holds 49 patents.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Hodgkin used x-rays to find the structural layouts of atoms and to discover the overall molecular shape of over 100 molecules including: penicillin, vitamin B-12, vitamin D and insulin.
Krisztina Holly
Co-invented the telephony software called Visual Voice.
Erna Schneider Hoover
Hoover invented the computerized telephone switching system.
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was a computer inventor best known for the Mark computer series.
Mary Phelps Jacob
Mary Phelps Jacob invented the bra.
Amanda Theodosia Jones
Jones re-invented American food production by inventing vacuum packed canning.
Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Joyner invented a permanent wave machine that would allow a hairdo to stay set for days.
Anna Keichline
Architect, Anna Keichline created inventions for the home.
Mary Kies: Patenting Pioneer
Kies was the first women to receive a U.S. patent on May 15, 1809.
Gabriele Knecht
Patented the Forward Sleeve design for creating clothing.
Margaret Knight
Margaret Knight was an employee in a paper bag factory when she invented a new machine part to make square bottoms for paper bags. Knight can be considered the mother of the grocery bag, she founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870.
Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Kwolek invented a material five times stronger than steel called Kevlar.
Hedy Lamarr
Lamarr was a movie star and inventor.
Ada Lovelace
Wrote a scientific paper in 1843 that anticipated the development of computer software artificial intelligence and computer music.
Sybilla Masters - First American Woman Inventor
Masters was the first American female inventor in recorded history, but no doubt women have been inventing since the dawn of time without the deserved recognition.
Ann Moore
Invented the Snugli baby carrier.
Krysta Morlan
Krysta Morlan invented a device that relieves the irritation caused by wearing a cast - the cast cooler.
Ellen Ochoa
Ochoa invented optical analysis systems and was the world’s first Hispanic female astronaut.
Alice Parker
Alice Parker invented a new and improved gas heating furnace.
Betty Rozier and Lisa Vallino
Rozier and Vallino, a mother and daughter invention team, invented the intravenous catheter shield.
Patsy Sherman
Patsy Sherman invented Scotchgard™.
Valerie Thomas
Received a patent in 1980 for inventing an illusion transmitter.
Ann Tsukamoto
The co-patenter of a process to isolate the human stem cell.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was considered the “Moses of the Civil War” for her work on the underground railroads.
Madame Walker
Madame Walker was a St. Louis washerwoman-turned-entrepreneur, who in 1905 invented a method to soften and smooth African American hair.
Mary Walton
Walton invented several anti-pollution devices during the Industrial Revolution.
Carol Wior
Invented the Slimsuit, a slimming swimsuit.
American Women Inventors Go Public
In the modern era, women have had more difficulty gaining credit for their inventions, but that has not stopped them from inventing.
Prolific Female Inventors of the Industrial Era
Four “Lady Edisons” are described in this article: Mary S, Beulah Louise Henry (ice cream freezer), Helen Augusta Blanchard (zigzag stitch machine) and Margaret Knight (square-bottomed paper bags).
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This article is about women inventing in traditionally male fields.
Mothers of Inventions
This is an article by Heather Salerno on the familiar tale of why women inventors are not given more exposure, with several historical inventors highlighted.
Women Inventors (1899)
This is an article on women inventors that was part of a 1899 patent manual written by Fred Dieterich.
“It’s a Woman’s Invention”
This is an article written by Ginny Grein that has advice for new inventors.
Women and the History of Computers.
Ada Lovelace - Edith Clarke - RĂłsa PĂ©ter - Grace Hopper - Alexandra Forsythe - Evelyn Granville - Margaret Fox - Erna Hoover - Kay Antonelli - Alice Burks - Adele Goldstine - Joan Winters.
Women’s History in Transportation
American women have played important roles in improving how we travel for more than 170 years.
4000 Years of Women in Science
Women in Science is a collection of biographies of women throughout history who have contributed to mathematics, science and technology.
Women of NASA
The Women of NASA interactive project showcases outstanding women who are enjoying successful careers in math, science and technology.
Women Nobel Prize Laureates
In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, the first Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since.
Women would have to be more modest to be bearable though. Can you just imagine the sheer smugness and arrogance you would encounter if women were anywhere near as inventive as men?
Well this discussion has been…fruitless really. I mean it is clear that men have invented more than women, so I don’t understand why women need to ‘disprove’ that. The facts speak for themselves.
In ‘the west’ there is an attitude towards men that they are useless and worthless, even worse, that they are vile oppressors of women. Sure, some men have oppressed and mistreated women but I would actually suggest that society oppressed women in the past, rather than just men - since there were women who upheld that system too - punishing women for stepping out of line.
All that men have achieved and accomplished is ignored and vilified - when a man takes stock of his achievements it seems to be that women cannot even acknowledge it, women seem to see the facts as an attack upon women - it doesn’t have to be. Of course that depends on how the facts are used. Just because men are more inventive does not make women less; it just indicates that women as a whole are less inventive.
In this case, it is true that men are more inventive than women - and men have contributed a lot for the benefit of society and I am pleased and glad that those men have been so inventive as we all reap the benefits.
Every single place you take offense has been stated “compared to men women have invented virtually nothing,” or something to that effect. No man posting here would be so asinine as to state “women have never invented anything.” It is too easy to disprove and is not the point trying to be made here.
According to the US patent office the field with the highest number of women inventors is chemistry. Their net contribution is around 10%. In every other field the contribution is less.
Now then, with that little nugget in hand let’s examine the phrase “virtually” which means in essence or effect but not in fact. In other words, men have invented virtually everything. If the best women can do is 10% of all inventions than I would say the argument has a basis in fact.
Certainly women have invented things. If nothing else, they’ve invented new ways of annoying men.
Seriously, though, the point is this: the inventions of men outweigh the inventions of women by a staggering margin.
Yes, it could be that an ‘evil patriarchy’ has conspired to keep women down… but this really isn’t ringing very true as an argument in the 21st century.
It could be that men have taken credit for women’s inventions. That’s probably happened, now and then, but it actually seems to go both ways.
When someone says “women have invented nothing”, he obviously means “materially nothing”.
And, sadly, that’s true.
I’d like it if women were as inventive as men.
Think about it.
We’d be twice as advanced. We’d probably be lounging about on FTL quantum-black-hole hyperspace starships enjoying our “chair and gong for hotel” and disposable cell-phones.
Seriously though, I would like it if we were more inventive as a species — including women.
-wolfe
I am not disputing that there are more male patent holders than female patent holders. There have been men on different parts of this site that have stated that women have never invented anything at all, and that I am disputing.
So, I probably included more women by accident then you did. Doesn’t change the apparent inconvienient issue that most inventions are done by men.
And yet still moving on:
James Naismith
The Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891.
John Napier
The Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms, the decimal point, and Napier’s Bones.
Gerhard Neumann
Neumann created innovations in jet aircraft engines.
Alfred Neustadter
Invented the Rolodex.
Thomas Newcomen
Invented the atmospheric steam engine.
Sir Isaac Newton
Invented the reflecting telescope in 1668.
Julius Nieuwland
The inventor of the first synthetic rubber called neoprene.
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Invented a rotating-disk technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884. The Nipkow Disk was the very first electromechanical television scanning system. Nipkow’s system was abandoned early in the history of television for the electronic systems developed by later inventors.
Alfred Nobel
Invented dynamite.
Jean Nollet
Invented the electroscope - a device for detecting electric charge - in 1748.
Robert N Noyce
The co-founder of the Intel Corporation and the inventor-pioneer in semiconductor development. Jack Kilby and Robert N Noyce co-invented the integrated circuit.
Dr. Hans von Ohain
Co-inventor of the first jet engine.
Samuel O’Reilly
Samuel O’Reilly and the history of inventions related to tattoos.
Kenneth H Olsen
Invented vital computer components and is best known for inventing “Magnetic Core Memory” and for co-founding the Digital Equipment Corporation.
Scott Olson and Brennan Olson
Invented Rollerblades.
Elisha Graves Otis
Invented the elevator brake making safe elevators possible.
John Ott
A pioneer of full-spectrum lighting, Ott first became interested in the effects of artificial light while doing time-lapse photography.
Nicolaus August Otto
Invented the first practical alternative to the steam engine, the “Four-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine” or gas motor engine in 1876. He named his invention the “Otto Cycle Engine”. As soon as he had completed his engine, Otto invented a motorcycle to use it with.
James Paige
Paige received a patent for the Mark Twain funded Paige Typesetter, a competitor to the linotype machine patented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
Louis Parker
Louis Parker received a patent for the first television receiver.
John Parsons
John Parsons’ invention changed the control of machines and industrial processes to make more precise functions.
Blaise Pascal
The French scientist, Blaise Pascal has been credited with inventing the very first digital calculator.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur discovered that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the “germ theory of disease”. Pasteur created inventions based on fermentation, such as improved brewing methods and pasteurization. The history of pasteurization.
Robert Patch
Invented a toy truck at the age of six.
Arthur Paul Pedrick
The king of wacky patents.
Lester Pelton
Invented a type of free-jet water turbine called the Pelton Wheel or Pelton turbine.
John Pemberton
Invented Coca-Cola.
Edwin Perkins
Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in 1927.
Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins was a noted inventor of various types of machinery including steel engraving plates for bank notes.
Charles Plank
Charles Plank co-invented the first zeolite catalyst, which made gasoline production possible.
Roy Plunkett
Roy Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers, known as Teflon.
Valdemar Poulsen
The arc transmitter which - contrary to all previous types of radio transmitters - generated continuous radio waves was invented by the Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen in 1902. Poulsen also invented the telegraphone, for recording telephone conversations.
Joseph Priestley
Priestley invented soda water and co-discovered oxygen.
Dr. Dietrich Prinz
Dr. Dietrich Prinz wrote the original chess-playing program for a general purpose computer.
Gaspard de Prony
Famous mathematician who invented the Prony brake - dynamometer.
James Puckle
Inventor of the Puckle gun
George Pullman
George Pullman invented the Pullman Sleeping Car in 1857. The history of railroads.
Michael Pupin
Michael Pupin improved the quality of long-distance telephone and telegraph transmissions.
Willam Purvis
Invented several inventions including an improved fountain pen.
Jacob Rabinow
Jacob Rabinow received a patent for a automated scanning and sorting machines.
Cordell Reed
Improved nuclear electric power.
Dr Wilhelm Reich
Built the dangerous orgone accumulator.
Jesse W Reno
In 1891, Jesse Reno created a new novelty ride at Coney Island. This lead to the invention of the escalator.
Ronald J Riley
Invented automated electrified monorail systems.
Norbert Rillieux
Invented the sugar processing evaporator. The history of sugar.
Dr. Robert Rines
The history of high definition radar and the sonogram. Rines is a patent attorney, a founder of the Franklin Pierce Law Center and a chaser of Loch Ness monster.
James Ritty
Invented what was nicknamed the Incorruptible Cashier - or the first working mechanical cash register.
Louis Roberts
His research interests focused on microwave and optical techniques and components, plasma research, solid state component and circuit development.
Heinrich Rohrer
Received a patent for the scanning tunneling microscope. The history of microscopes.
Edward J Rosinski
Edward Rosinski co-invented the first zeolite catalyst, making the production of gasoline possible.
Erik Rotheim - Eric Rotheim
Erik Rotheim (also spelled Eric Rotheim) of Norway patented the first aerosol can and valve that could hold and dispense products and propellant systems.
Benjamin A Rubin
Benjamin Rubin invented the vaccination needle.
Enro Rubik
Enro Rubik invented the most popular puzzle in history, Rubik’s Cube.
Count Rumford
Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) invented the Rumford fireplace in 1796.
James T Russell
James Russell invented the compact disc.
Edwin Ruud
Edwin Ruud received a patent for the automatic storage water heater in 1889.
Ralph Samuelson
Ralph Samuelson, an eighteen-year-old from Minnesota, proposed the idea that if you could ski on snow, then you could ski on water. He invented waterskiing in 1922.
Santorio Santorio
Santorio invented several instruments: a wind gauge, a water current meter, the “pulsilogium” and a thermoscope (precursor to the thermometer).
Lewis Hastings Sarett
Lewis Sarett received a patent for a synthetic version of the hormone cortisone.
Viktor Schauberger
Viktor Schauberger is the father of cold fusion energy, derived naturally and non-invasively from the simple use of air and water, and the creator of the first ever, non-energy consuming ‘flying disc’.
Arthur Schawlow
Arthur Schawlow received a patent for the maser laser.
Charles Seeberger
The history of the escalator.
Henry Shrapnel
Shrapnel is a type of antipersonnel projectile named after its famous inventor, Henry Shrapnel.
Peter Schultz
Peter Schultz created fiber-optic communications inventions and co-invented fiber-optic wire.
Robert Seiwald
Robert Seiwald received a patent for the first antibody labeling agent.
Ignaz Semmelweis
History of antiseptics.
Waldo Semon
Waldo Semon invented a way to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) useful.
John Sheehan
John Sheehan received a patent for synthesis of natural penicillin.
William Bradford Shockley
William Shockley received a patent for the transistor. The history of the transistor.
Christopher Latham Sholes
Invented the first practical modern typewriter.
Arthur Sicard
Canadian famous inventor, Arthur Sicard invented the snowblower in 1925.
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky invented fixed winged and multi-engined aircraft, transoceanic flying boats and helicopters.
Spencer Silver
Invented the glue for Post-It Notes.
Luther Simjian
He is most famous for his invention of the Bankmatic automatic teller machine (ATM).
Issac Merrit Singer
Invented a popular sewing machine.
Harold Smith
Harold Smith and the history of Crayola Crayons.
Ernest Solvay
Solvay received a patent for the industrial process for sodium carbonate production in 1861.
Carl Sontheimer
Carl Sontheimer invented the Cuisinart.
James Spangler
James Spangler invented a portable electric vacuum cleaner - the Hoover.
Percy Spencer
Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven.
Elmer Sperry
Elmer Sperry invented the gyroscopic compass and gyroscope-guided automatic pilots for ships, airplanes and spacecraft.
Richie Stachowski
Richie Stachowski was the kid famous inventor who invented the Water Talkies.
John Standard
An improved refrigerator design was patented by African American, John Standard.
William Stanley Jr
William Stanley received a patent for the induction coil.
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss and the history of blue jeans.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Steinmetz developed theories on alternating current, that allowed for the rapid expansion of the electric power industry.
John Stevens
The “father” of the American railroad.
Thomas Stewart
Stewart invented an improved mop, metal bender, and railroad crossing indicator.
George R Stibitz
George Stibitz is recognized as being the father of the modern digital computer.
Rufus Stokes
Rufus Stokes invented a exhaust purifier and an air pollution control device.
William Sturgeon
British electrician, William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet in 1825.
Gideon Sundback
Gideon Sundback received a patent for the “Separable Fastener” or zipper.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Swan produced an early electric light bulb and invented the dry photographic plate.
Byron Swetland
An interview with the creators of Tekno Bubbles, a innovative variation on the old blowing bubbles that glow under black lights and smell like raspberries.
Leo Szilard
invented the nuclear fission reactor in 1955.
Donalee L Tabern
Donalee Tabern received a patent for the general anesthetic, Pentothal.
Rusi Taleyarkhan
Rusi Taleyarkhan and team invented a bubble fusion reactor. Taleyarkhan has also invented variable velocity bullets used in a futuristic stun gun.
Toyoichi Tanaka
Toyoichi Tanaka received a patent for Smart Gels, a synthetic (polyacrylamide) polymer gel with unusual properties.
Ralph Teetor
Unstopped by his blindness, Ralph Teetor invented cruise control.
Edward Teller
The history of hydrogen bomb.
Lewis Temple
The toggle iron harpoon was designed in 1848 by Lewis Temple, this was the standard harpoon used in American whaling from the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries.
Nikola Tesla
He invented an AC motor and transformer, X-Ray technology, a vacuum tube amplifier and the Tesla Coil. Nikola Tesla claimed the invention of an electrical generator that would not “consume any fuel”. The Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s radio patent in 1943, in favor of Tesla’s patent.
Mark Thatcher
Mark Thatcher invented Teva Sandals.
Valerie Thomas
Received a patent in 1980 for inventing an illusion transmitter.
Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford
Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) invented the Rumford fireplace in 1796.
John Thompson
Inventor of the Tommy gun.
John Henry Thompson
Invented lingo programming used in Macromedia Director and Shockwave.
Benjamin Tilghman
Benjamin Tilghman received the first British patent for sand blasting equipment in 1870.
Henry Timken
Henry Timken received a patent for the Timken or tapered roller bearings.
Max Tishler
Max Tishler invented methods for synthesizing the essential vitamin B2 and a poultry disease antibiotic.
Charles Townes
Charles Townes invented the Maser (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission).
Brent Townshend
The 56K modem was invented by Dr. Brent Townshend in 1996.
Jethro Tull
Agricultural pioneer who invented the seed drill in 1701.
Earl S Tupper
Earl Tupper invented Tupperware.
Richard Trevithick
The first locomotive in the world was built by Richard Trevithick in 1804.
Tuan Vo-Dinh
Invented optical diagnostic equipment. Vo-Dinh’s patents were for a badge worn on a worker’s shirt that recorded exposure to toxic chemicals and for a optical scanner that would read that badge.
Alessandro Volta
Invented the voltaic pile, a forerunner to the electric battery. The history of batteries.
Ernest H Volwiler
Ernest Volwiler co-invented the general anesthetic, Pentothal.
Otto von Guericke
The inventor of the nothing we call a vacuum.
Georg Von Hevesy
Conceived the idea of using radioactive tracers
Craven Walker
Craven Walker invented the swinging 60’s icon, the Lava Lite® lamp.
Hildreth “Hal” Walker
Hal Walker received a patent for laser telemetry and targeting systems.
Harry Wasylyk
Harry Wasylyk invented the green garbage bag.
Lewis Edson Waterman
Lewis Edson Waterman invented an improved fountain pen.
James Watt
James Watt invented improvements to the steam engine.
Robert Weitbrecht
Robert Weitbrecht invented TTY also called TDD or the tele-typewriter.
James Edward West
James West holds 47 US and more than 200 foreign patents on microphones and techniques for making polymer foil-electrets.
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse perfected the first automatic, electric block signal. He helped spearhead the development of alternating current and figured out an efficient way to transmit clean, natural gas to homes. He invented an improvement to steam-powered brakes or air brakes.
Don Wetzel
Don Wetzel and the history of the modern automated teller machines (ATM).
Charles Wheatstone
Invented an early telegraph, microphone, and the accordion.
Schulyer Wheeler
In 1886, Schulyer Wheeler invented the electric fan.
John Thomas White
African American, John White patented a lemon squeezer in 1896.
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.
Sir Frank Whittle
Hans von Ohain and Frank Whittle and the history of the jet engine.
Stephen Wilcox
Stephen Wilcox received a patent for of the water tube steam boiler.
Dr Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was a pioneer in open heart surgery.
Robert R Williams
Robert Williams invented ways to synthesize vitamins.
Thomas Willson
Thomas Leopold Willson invented a process for Calcium Carbide.
Joseph Winters
Patented the fire escape ladder.
Granville T Woods
Granville Woods invented improvements to electric railways, air brakes, telephones and telegraphs, a chicken egg incubator and an apparatus for an amusement park ride.
Steven Wozniak
Steven Wozniak was the co-founder of Apple Computers.
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright received a patent for a “flying machine” that we know as the airplane.
Arthur Wynne
Arthur Wynne invented the crossword puzzle.
Gumpei Yokoi
Gumpei Yokoi was the creator of the Game Boy.
Hajib (Gene) Zaid
Hajib Zaid invented corrosion inhibitor industrial chemicals.
Frank Zamboni
Frank Zamboni invented the ice resurfacing machine called the zamboni.
Ferdinand Zeppelin
Ferdinand Zeppelin invented the rigid dirigible, a lighter-than-air vehicle called the zeppelin.
Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse was the inventor of the first freely programmable computer.
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Vladimir Zworykin invented the cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in 1929, a tube needed for television transmission. Zworykin also invented the iconoscope, an early television camera.