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Post by Andyberg on Jun 7, 2018 3:47:43 GMT
Following on from the other thread, I've been thinking about woman's greatest inventions (Its been a slow night tonight!!)
I think right up there has to be 'moaning', with 'bitching' not too far behind...
Seriously though, Beatrice Shilling and her orifice must rate very highly.
But definitely for me, Aunt Bessie takes some beating with her frozen Yarkshire Puddings!
What you think, anything else the ladies have invented?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 4:08:34 GMT
From a woman’s perspective I reckon it’s headaches...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 4:44:33 GMT
Theory of radioactivity and practical research in that field.
Quite an important one that - one that Marie Curie paid for with her life.
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Post by patty on Jun 7, 2018 5:08:42 GMT
Theory of radioactivity and practical research in that field. Quite an important one that - one that Marie Curie paid for with her life. I needs must do research to discover what other amazing things us women invented....I shall in due course report back
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Post by patty on Jun 7, 2018 5:30:33 GMT
OK quick check and some say women invented beer...dear oh dear.... other inventions attributed to us include Kevlar, stem cell isolation, home security system, Monopoly(rubbish invention), computer software oh and the dishwasher(no we r not THE DISHWASHERS)....
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Post by Andyberg on Jun 7, 2018 5:42:27 GMT
Hedy Lamarr's life is an interesting read...married 6 times, filmstar and inventor of bluetooth / wifi technologies (indirectly!)
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Post by Telemachus on Jun 7, 2018 7:33:18 GMT
Surely babies must be high on the list?
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Post by JohnV on Jun 7, 2018 7:33:32 GMT
Women scientists have been ignored by history, many have their discoveries/work known under some others name
(not that it didn't happen to male scientists as well ...... Fleming, Cheyne and Florey shared a Nobel prize. Everyone credits Alexander Fleming with the discovery of penicillin, who remembers the others ....... if you look up poor Ernst Cheyne on the internet ...... they often spell his name wrong !!! but I suppose he was only German .... and a Jew to boot)
But a female contender well a couple who spring to mind .....
Mary Anning (Mary Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow) is supposed to be her ..... but she should be known as an early paleontologist who made many staggering discoveries often blatantly claimed by others.
The Countess of Lovelace (Ada) mathematician hardly mentioned in the developments that preceded computers (analytical machines) but Babbage is lauded.
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Post by Trina on Jun 7, 2018 7:51:40 GMT
Surely babies must be high on the list? Not on my list...
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Post by Telemachus on Jun 7, 2018 7:58:20 GMT
Surely babies must be high on the list? Not on my list... Very sensible!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 8:55:47 GMT
Not an invention in the conventional sense. I'd like to nominate the Suffragettes.
I watched a programme on the tv the other day and was slightly gobsmacked about their struggle to get the vote.
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Post by thebfg on Jun 7, 2018 20:05:35 GMT
You missed one Patty. one I thought you may of got.
Being from the same town. I shall have to say modern nursing.
Florence nightingale.
now I'm a little annoyed we could have explored her family home Embley park.it became a school which closed down and is now becoming retirement flats. security kept is out of the main building.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 20:27:49 GMT
Obviously women have been sorting out their things for millenia but the Tampon itself (with applicator) was actually "invented" by a bloke apparently. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Haas
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 21:00:13 GMT
Not an invention in the conventional sense. I'd like to nominate the Suffragettes.
I watched a programme on the tv the other day and was slightly gobsmacked about their struggle to get the vote.
Emily Wilding Davidson was one who also lost her life to the cause she dedicated herself to. Although it now seems she was neither a martyr or an anarchist. www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/26/emily-davison-suffragette-death-derby-1913
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Post by patty on Jun 8, 2018 5:14:32 GMT
Not an invention in the conventional sense. I'd like to nominate the Suffragettes.
I watched a programme on the tv the other day and was slightly gobsmacked about their struggle to get the vote.
Emily Wilding Davidson was one who also lost her life to the cause she dedicated herself to. Although it now seems she was neither a martyr or an anarchist. www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/26/emily-davison-suffragette-death-derby-1913Its sad that the jockey subsequently killed himself...whatever her intentions she affected more lives than her own by her death.
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