Only 15% of patents belong to women, but the list seems to be growing as women are encouraged to invent. As they say “necessity is the mother of invention” and the world needs more women inventors.

1. Women Inventors Who Changed the
World

2. Melitta Bentz
• Cut paper from a
notebook and put in
bottom of a pot
• Poured water over it and
filtered out bitter taste
• Manufactured “coffee
markers” and sold at local
fairs

3. Marie Curie
• Only person to win 2
Nobel prizes
• Invented chemical
process for extracting
radioactive material from
ore
• Discovered Radium

4. Grace Hopper
• Invented first computer
compiler
• Dramatically changed the
way programmers wrote
software
• Developed COBAL - first
user-friendly computer
software program

5. Martha Knight
• Invented machine that
produced paper bags
• First woman to fight and
win patent suit
• Invented several other
machines and tools

6. Necessity is Mother of Invention

7. Julie Austin - inventor, futurist, innovation keynote
speaker - www.creativeinnovationgroup.com