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7 Inventions by Black Inventors that Benefit People Everyday
Water guns, the telephone, caller ID, traffic lights with three lights - all things we take for granted today and probably never think about who invented them or what life was like before these wonderful inventions. Here are 7 Black American inventors and what they...
7 Women Inventors Whose Inventions You Use Everyday
Women have always been inventive, even if we don't always hear about it. Here are 7 things you use or encounter every single day, and probably didn't know that a woman invented or co-invented it! Woven Clothing Elizabeth Wayland Barber, he author of "Women's Work,...
7 Women Pilots Who Aren’t Amelia Earhart
We love Amelia Earhart, don't get us wrong, but there are so many amazing and brave women pilots to know about! Here are just 7 of them. Thérèse Peltier was a sculptor who learned to fly from her friend and flew in a straight line for 200 meters, about 2.5 meters off...
The Guerrilla Girls
Who are the Guerrilla Girls? Every other artist we have talked about so far is just one person. The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women, but nobody knows who they really are. Each woman in the group takes the name of a famous woman artist and only appears in public...
Ruth Asawa, Who Drew in the Air with Wire Sculpture
Ruth Asawa 1926-2013 When you see a sculpture by Ruth Asawa, her amazing shapes created out of wire, you may experience a sense of awe and wonder, “how on earth are those made?” The shapes appear light weight, seem to float, or actually float, and are sometimes made...
Kathe Kollwitz, Activist through Art
Kathë Kollwitz, 1867-1945 Kathë Kollowitz (say the W like a V), is known for her prints that protest a social situation from her times, or show the profound grief of a parent whose child has died. Print Making to Make a Statement Print making was a choice that she...
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist, 1844-1926 Mary Cassatt was a wealthy American woman who is known for painting other wealthy women in (more or less) proper places – at home, with children, at the opera. At first glance, you might think she was proper herself. But...
Alma Woodsey Thomas, African American Abstract Artist
If you can name one abstract painter, he’s probably a man. But women painted abstractly too, and in fact the first artist to achieve abstraction in a painting was a woman, artist Lee Krasner. Sometimes it may seem like only men were abstract painters, but it’s not...
Hedy Lamarr and Frequency Hopping
Sometimes, an invention is invented because someone makes an imaginative leap from one thing to another. That can be why a regular person comes up with a clever new innovation that the experts didn’t see—the expert is focused on their one area of expertise, that they...
Sarah Goode, Black Inventor of the Cabinet Bed
Sarah E. Goode (1855-1905) was the first African American woman to be awarded a U.S. Patent, for a cabinet bed, which would fold up during the day “so as to occupy less space, and made generally to resemble some article of furniture when so folded.” Her patent was...
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