Women in Male-Dominated Technologies

No. 733: First U.S. Press
A woman known only by her last name establishes the first printing shop in the colonial United States.

No. 1133: Lucille Treganowan
In mathematical terms she's an "isolated singularity"-a female car mechanic.

Women & New Technology

No. 904: Women and Photography
Women in the 19th-century use the new technology of photography to change the views of the world around them.

No. 1245: Sarah Bagley
A determined woman opens a new technology to women workers despite ridicule from the local press, and then promptly disappears.

No. 923: Elizabeth Fleischmann
The best radiologist in America lost an arm to cancer and died before she could continue her innovative research into treating the disease that killed her.

No. 1494: X-Ray Hair Removal
During the first half of the 20th century, X-ray hair-removal clinics operated, first in doctors' offices and then secretly, in people's homes. Years later, the deadly effects of vanity showed up in one-third of cancer cases.