TARA ASTIGARRAGA
KAVITA SHUKLA
MADISON MAXEY
MARJORIE STEWART JOYNER
THERESA DANKOVICH
SHARON ROGONE
GRACE HOPPER
AYAH BDEIR
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL
If you had to name an inventor, would it be a woman? Or did you first think of a man like Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell? Women haven’t always had equal opportunities to be inventors, or received as much recognition. But throughout American history, women with diverse backgrounds and interests created inventions that change our lives every day.
Picturing Women Inventors is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is sponsored by Lyda Hill Philanthropies IF/THEN Initiative and Ericsson. Except where noted, images courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of American History
STEPHANIE KWOLEK
ALEXIS LEWIS
AMY PRIETO
PATRICIA BATH
ELLEN OCHOA
MÁRIA TELKES
MICHELLE KHINE
LISA LINDAHL HINDA MILLER
MARILYN HAMILTON