Inventors

No. 215: Hypatia's Mathematics
An astonishing mathematical scholar, inventor, and independent woman, Hypatia is the target of a political reprisal on the way to her father's library.

No. 326: Colonial Women Inventors
Two colonial women exhibit a talent for invention, creating mills and tools for their crops and clothes.

No. 80: Women
Moving from anonymous inventions to a female president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, women are demonstrating a pattern of increased involvement in engineering.

No. 592: A Gift to be Simple
A Shaker woman invented the buzz saw-myth or fact?

No. 547: Bertha E. Jaques
An upper-middle class housewife "with an engineer's eye" invents the technology of etching using nitric acid and copper plates.

No. 435: Hedy Lamarr, Inventor
Hollywood's most stunning actress was more than a beautiful face. Austrian-born Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio-controlled torpedo with a frequency-hopping control signal that is now used all over the world.

No. 306: Mothers of Invention
The book Mothers of Invention discusses patents held by women for clever creations from pantyhose improvements to Liquid Paper to medical breakthroughs.

Creating a Home from Ruins

No. 1248: Charles and Hester Stanhope
A Prime Minister's niece is shipwrecked off the island of Rhodes and sets up a partly aristocratic, partly medieval fortress on Mt. Lebanon.

No. 815: Inner City Dog Sled
A faceless woman, three mismatched dogs, two ragged cats, and a sled made out of shopping carts-somehow, these things illustrate the basic human needs and fears that embody homelessness.