A genius woman
She submitted the idea of a Secret Communication
System in June 1941. On 11 August 1942, this early version of
frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88
frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder
for enemies to detect or jam.
The idea was impractical, ahead of its time, and
not feasible due to the state of mechanical technology in 1942. It
was not implemented in the USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S.
military ships during a blockade of Cuba,after the patent had
expired. This frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern
spread-spectrum communication technology, e.g. CDMA used in devices
ranging from cordless telephones to WiFi network connections.
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name which gives you A = ____
Another genius woman
Germany's first professional air pilot, she
developed the so-called "parachute packet" in 1913. She folded the
parachute and stowed it in a bag, creating the first modern
parachute. It saved many lives during World War I, earning her a
medal for help during the war. She also invented the intentional
breakaway, a system that has one small parachute open to pull out
the main one.
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first name which gives you B = ____
Another genius woman
Working at Schott glass company for 44 years,she
developed over 300 kinds of eyeglass lenses. In 1973, she received
the IR100 award from the American Industrial Research Council for
the 100 most significant new technical products for her SF64
lightweight lens. It made it possible to create much lighter
glasses that were also esthetically more pleasing. She was the
first female executive at Schott in Mainz. About 40 patents are
still registered in her name.
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name which gives you C = ____
Another genius woman
She was born in Dresden and lived there as a
housewife with her husband and her two sons. She was getting tired
of drinking coffee with coffee-grounds and, as a result, began to
experiment with her children's blotting paper from their work books
and put them in a brass pot with holes in it. That's how the basic
principle of the "first coffee-filter" originated.
In 1908, she applied for the patent of her
invention at the "Kaiserliche Patentamt" in Berlin, and soon
thereafter, she received the registered trade-mark. Consequently,
the couple refined the invention and formed a family business in
December, 1908. From 1912 on, they produced their own filter
paper,and in 1937, the bags for the coffee-filter were
developed.
The main seat of the family business has been in
Minden since 1929, and it employs about 4000 people in Germany
today.
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name which gives you D = ____
Another genius woman
She never intended to be an inventor; she wanted
to be an artist. However, shortly after World War II ended, she
found herself divorced with a small child to support. She learned
shorthand and typing and found employment as an executive
secretary. An efficient employee who took pride in her work, she
sought a better way to correct typing errors. She remembered that
artists painted over their mistakes on canvas, so why couldn’t
typists paint over their mistakes?
She put some tempera waterbased paint, colored
to match the stationery she used, in a bottle and took her
watercolor brush to the office. She used this to correct her typing
mistakes… her boss never noticed. Soon another secretary saw the
new invention and asked for some of the correcting fluid. She found
a green bottle at home, wrote "Mistake Out" on a label, and gave it
to her friend. Soon all the secretaries in the building were asking
for some, too. So the TippEx was born.
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name which gives you E = ____
Another genius woman
She invented the first practical dishwasher. She
had expected the public to welcome the new invention, which she
unveiled at the 1893, World's Fair, but only the hotels and large
restaurants were buying her ideas. It was not until the 1950s, that
dishwashers caught on with the general public.
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name which gives you F = ____
Another genius woman
She revolutionized the infant care industry by
inventing the prototype of the disposable diaper.
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name which gives you G = ____
Another genius woman
Anyone who's ever driven in a rain or snow storm
can attest to the dire importance of windshield wipers. What a lot
of people don't know is that windshield wipers were invented by a
woman. She received a patent for her car-window cleaning device in
1903.
Her invention came about during a trip to New
York City when she noticed that streetcar drivers had to open the
windows of their cars when it rained in order to see. As a
solution, she invented a swinging arm device with a rubber blade
that was operated by the driver from within the vehicle using a
lever.
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name which gives you H = ____
Another genius woman
She made it possible that the champagne contains
bubbles. She invented the riddling rack that allows the dégorgement
of dead yeast and sediment from the wine in a cleaner process. Her
invention was composed of a wooden desk with circular holes drilled
in it that allowed a bottle of wine to be stuck sur point or upside
down. Every day, a cellar assistant would gently shake and twist
(remuage) the bottle to encourage the dead yeast and sediments to
settle in the neck of the bottle. Once the yeast settled in the
neck, it was frozen. After the cork was released, the sediments
would fall out, allowing the clean wine to be topped and
recorked.
If you know who this woman was, take the 1st letter of her last
name which gives you I = ____
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