On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...
On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...
The Movie Invention: Technology that means you can entirely change your face. Nic Cage changes his so that he looks like John Travolta. Don’t ask why. What We’d Do With It: Get Brad Pitt’s face, obv.
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The plow -- I: Winners and losers: The gramophone ; Barbed wire ; Seller feedback ; Google search ; Passports ; Robots ; The welfare state -- II: Reinventing how we ...
On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...
The Movie Invention: An adorable little robot whose sole purpose is to do the cleaning. In Wall-E , he’s been left on an abandoned Earth shifting through all the rubbish we humans left behind. What We ...