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Anne Buckley
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PATENTS HELD BY
WOMEN INVENTORS
Having greatly contributed to the
industrial development of the nation, women hold patents in a wide range of fields. Some
of their inventions revolutionized entire industries, others created them. Listed below
are some of the patents held by women inventors in the United States.
| Patentee |
Date Issued |
Patent No. |
Description |
| Mary Kies |
05-05-1809 |
no number |
straw weaving
with silk or thread |
| Martha J.
Coston |
04-05-1859 |
23,536 |
pyrotechnic
night signals |
|
06-13-1871 |
115,935 |
improvement-pyrotechnic
night signals |
| Clarissa
Britain |
08-11-1863 |
39,460 |
improvement
in ambulances |
|
10-05-1863 |
40,157 |
improvement
in boilers |
| Rebecca
Sherwood |
11-10-1863 |
40,577 |
reducing
hemp, flax, etc. to fibrous substances |
|
12-13-1863 |
45,440 |
improvement
in reducing straw and other fibrous substances for the manufacture of paper pulp |
| Mary Jane
Montgomery |
01-05-1864 |
41,167 |
improved
war-vessel |
|
05-31-1864 |
42,958 |
improvement
in locomotive wheels |
|
05-08-1866 |
54,580 |
improved
apparatus for punching corrugated metals |
| Sarah P.
Mather |
07-05-1864 |
43,465 |
submarine
telescope |
| Temperance P.
Edson |
07-04-1865 |
48,539 |
self-inflator
raising sunken vessels |
| Margaret
Knight |
11-15-1870 |
109,224 |
improved
paper-feeding machine |
|
07-11-1871 |
116,842 |
improved
paper-bag machine |
|
10-28-1879 |
220,925 |
improved
paper-bag machine |
|
09-16-1890 |
436,358 |
sole cutting
machine |
|
12-30-1902 |
720,818 |
compound
rotary engine |
|
01-06-1904 |
717,869 |
rotary engine |
| (w/J.M.
Benjamin) |
11-03-1904 |
743,293 |
automatic
tool for boring or planing convex or cylindrical surfaces |
|
01-23-1912 |
1,105,761 |
resilient
wheel |
| Augusta M.
Rodgers |
04-04-1871 |
113,348 |
car heater |
|
05-09-1871 |
114,605 |
improvement
in conveyors of smoke and cinders for locomotives |
|
10-10-1871 |
119,790 |
improvement
in conveyors |
| Maria L.
Ghirardini |
07-29-1873 |
141,217 |
rails for
street railways |
| Emily E.
Tassey |
07-25-1876 |
180,286 |
improvement
in apparatus for raising sunken vessels |
|
12-05-1876 |
183,998 |
improvement
in dredging machines |
|
12-05-1876 |
184,996 |
improvement
in siphon propeller-pump |
|
12-05-1876 |
194,997 |
improvement
in propulsion of vessels |
| Sarah E. Saul |
09-19-1876 |
182,485 |
improvement
in metallic casings for lead pipes |
| Caroline S.
Brooks |
02-06-1877 |
187,095 |
improvement
in methods of producing lubricated molds in plaster |
| Mary E.
Walton |
11-18-1879 |
221,880 |
locomotive
and other chimneys |
|
02-08-1881 |
327,422 |
elevated
railway |
| Maria E.
Beasley |
04-06-1880 |
226,264 |
life-raft |
|
08-02-1881 |
245,050 |
barrel-hoop
driving machine |
| Evelyn F.
French & Milton Clifford |
11-09-1880 |
234,265 |
sound-deadening
attachment for railway cars |
| Anna Connelly |
08-23-1887 |
368,816 |
fire escape |
| Harriet W.R.
Strong |
12-06-1887 |
374,378 |
dam &
reservoir construction |
|
11-06-1894 |
528,823 |
method of
& means for impounding debris & storing water |
| Annie H.
Chilton |
07-28-1891 |
456,613 |
horse
detacher & brake |
|
02-27-1894 |
515,651 |
combined
horse detacher & brake |
| Letitia Geer |
04-11-1899 |
622,848 |
medical
syringes |
| Mary Anderson |
11-10-1903 |
743,801 |
window
cleaning device |
| Lizzie
Dickelman |
05-15-1917 |
1,219,267 |
grain
storehouse construction |
|
05-05-1917 |
1,226,477 |
metal
building plate |
|
01-13-1920 |
1,328,132 |
ventilated
storage warehouse |
| El Dorado
Jones |
06-02-1917 |
1,229,471 |
exhaust
attachment for gas engines |
| Ida R. Forbes |
12-25-1917 |
1,251,210 |
electric hot
water heater |
| Olive Dennis |
11-27-1928 |
1,693,108 |
ventilator |
| Katharine B.
Blodgett |
04-12-1935 |
2,108,641 |
surface
treatment of materials |
|
03-13-1938 |
2,220,660 |
film
structure & preparation method |
| Henrietta
Bradbury |
12-01-1945 |
3,390,688 |
torpedo
discharge means |
| Evelyn
Berezin |
11-17-1959 |
2,913,176 |
data
processing system |
| Phyllis Hersh |
02-21-1961 |
2,972,736 |
bi-directional
magnetic tape |
| Jean H. Clark |
03-06-1962 |
3,024,421 |
linear
discriminator circuit |
| Erna S.
Hoover |
11-23-1971 |
3,623,007 |
feedback
control monitor for stored
program data processing system |
| Giuliana C.
Tesora |
03-20-1973 |
3,721,523 |
modification
of reactive hydrogen containing polymer |
| Barbara S.
Askins |
07-18-1978 |
4,101,780 |
method of
obtaining intensified image from developed photographic films and plates |
Sources: U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office; Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors Changed America, Anne L.
Macdonald, Ballantine Books, NY, Copywright 1992
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