Here’s a list of 16 women inventors, their inventions and dates:

1. Josephine Cochrane In 1886 invented the Dishwasher

2. Monopoly, originally called The Landlord’s Game, was invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1903.

3. Mary Anderson invented the Windshield Wiper In 1903

4. Ruth Wakefield invented the Chocolate Chip Cookies In 1930

5. Dr Grace Murray Hopper, a computer scientist, invented COBOL, the first user-friendly business computer software program in the 1950s.

6. Stem Cell Isolation was invented by Ann Tsukamoto in 1991

7. Nancy Johnson invented The ice-cream maker In 1843, Johnson invented the hand-cranked ice-cream maker, which is still used to this day.

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8. Margaret Knight invented the Square-Bottomed Paper Bag, shoe-manufacturing machines, a “dress shield” to protect garments from perspiration stains, a rotary engine and an internal combustion engine.

9. Maria Telkes: The first 100 percent solar-powered house, In 1947, the Hungarian scientist invented the thermoelectric power generator to provide heat for Dover House.

10. Ann Tsukamoto: Stem cell isolation

11. Grace Hopper  designed Harvard’s Mark I computer, a five-ton, room-size machine, in 1944. She invented the compiler that translated written language into computer code and coined the terms “bug” and “debugging” when she had to remove moths from the device.

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12. Rosalind Franklin: Although the discovery of the DNA double helix is often attributed to James Watson and Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1962, it was not actually theirs to claim.

13. Rosalind Franklin, a British biophysicist, was the first person to capture a photographic image while observing molecules using x-ray diffraction. But without her permission, an estranged male colleague showed the photograph to competitors Watson and Crick, who stole the credit as their own.

14. Maria Beasley is credited for inventing the life raft in 1882.

15. Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar in 1964. Kevlar has been used in hundreds of products, including bicycle tires, tennis rackets, racing sails, body armor, frying pans, musical instruments, bulletproof vests, and more. The para-aramid synthetic fiber is five times stronger than steel.

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16. Shirley Jackson, a theoretical physicist, was the first black woman to be awarded a Ph.D. from MIT, in 1973. While working at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in the late 1970s and ’80s, she conducted breakthrough scientific research with subatomic particles that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch-tone telephone, solar cells, fiber-optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.

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