Women Invented All Your Faves

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list of inventions/creations/discoveries by women that get swept under the rug

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Things Women Invented/DiscoveredMary Shelley - Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic FictionBaroness de Orczy - (Masked) SuperheroesSister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock n RollAda Lovelace - Computer ProgrammingAlice Guy-Blache - Color & Sound Movies, Fantasy Films, Fiction Films, Single-character Perspective, Natural MannerismsZelda Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald's careerCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - determined that hydrogen is the predominant element in starsMargaret Hamilton - software code on the original Apollo project (lead software engineer)Grace Hopper - the compiler (software programming)Annie Jump Cannon - star classification based on temperatureJoyce Jacobson Kaufman - concept of conformational topology (chemistry)Mary Sherman Morgan - hydyne (liquid fuel used in the Jupiter C-rocket)Mildred Catherine Rebstock - synthesis of the antibiotic chloromycetinHattie Elizabeth Alexander - remedy for hemophilius influenzaMarie Tharp - mapped the floor of the Atlantic, provided proof of continental drift theoryPatricia E Bath - the Laserphaco Probe (cataract treatment)Barbara McClintock - discovery that genes could move in and between chromosomesEnheduanna - Sumerian princess & priestess, first author in human historyNatalie Kalmus - Technicolor as the standard in film, proper skin tone on camera, the "Western" aesthetic, Disney's color signatureMilena Canonero - Wes Anderson & Stanley Kubrick's "signature" costume looksMarion Dougherty - the casts of everything you love from the 70s, the careers of Robert DeNiro, Paul Newman, James Dean, Bette Midler, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Robert Duvall, Diane Lane, Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton, first casting director recognized in opening credits