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This IS a Picture of Margaret E. Knight!

Photo Discovered of Inventor Margaret E. Knight! So many thanks to Laura Rankin of the Framingham Historical Society (Massachusetts) for finding and sharing this picture of inventor Margaret E. Knight! We’ll do a minisode to follow up on our podcast episode...
Marie Van Brittan Brown, Inventor

Marie Van Brittan Brown, Inventor

Guest post author: Lily Does your house have a security system? Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security systems which made the homes of so many people safer! Born on October 20, 1922 in New York, she was an inventor and Nurse. Marie Van...
Hedy Lamarr and Frequency Hopping

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...