Joan Stuckey
Joan Stuckey was the inventor of three separate award-winning air cushions designed for pressure relief. These are now used around the world by hospitals and by people in wheelchairs.
Joan Stuckey was the inventor of three separate award-winning air cushions designed for pressure relief. These are now used around the world by hospitals and by people in wheelchairs.
In 1811 Sarah Guppy patented a method for making safe abutments for suspension bridges.
Inventor of the disposable diaper
American scientist and entrepreneur
Indian-American engineer and businesswoman
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova (b. 1939) specialised in the synthesis and application of multiblock copolymers and coatings, holding many patents.
One of the first women to receive a doctorate in chemistry in the USSR
Ukrainian-Canadian chemical engineer
Azerbaijani academician, chemical engineer-technologist whose career at the Chemistry and Technology of Oils department, Azerbaijan State Institute of Petrochemical Processes led to her becoming a professor (1987), and extremely prolific author of reports and patents.
1800s American poet and inventor