The 16 best inventions of women

We believe that women's hands are perfectly controlled not only with dishes and a mop. We decided to recall the women who managed to dispel the persistent stereotype that the engines of progress are men.

A device for measuring the coordinates of celestial bodies was invented by a woman scientist, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria in 370 BC.

Nicole Barbier Clicquot in 1808 developed a remuage technology, thanks to which champagne gets rid of sediment in three months and becomes crystal clear. The technology has had a real success, significantly improving the quality of the drink.

Tabitha Babbitt watched for a long time the men engaged in sawing logs with a special saw with two handles, for which you need to pull back and forth. Although the load on both men was the same, the logs were sawn only when the saw was moving forward, and nothing happened with the log when moving back. Babbitt thought it was a waste of energy, and in 1810 created a prototype circular saw, which later became used in the sawmill industry.

With the help of this device, which was patented in 1845 by Sarah Mather, the distance to the observed objects is determined.

In 1873 at the World 's Fair in In Vienna, our compatriot Nadezhda Kozhina demonstrated a method of cooking canned meat, for which she received a medal.

Missing a few plates from her favorite porcelain set, Josephine Cochrane has created a machine that only washes dishes, not beats. This happened in 1886, but only 40 years later the Cochrane device was recognized as a necessary thing in the household.

This detail of women's wardrobe was patented by Ermini Cadol in France in 1889. In her corset workshop, Ms. Kadol exhibited a product called "le Bien-Etre" ("well-being"). The cups of this bra were supported by two satin ribbons, and the whole structure was attached to the corset from behind.

Cleanliness should be not only in the house, but also on the streets, decided the usual secretary Cynthia Westover and assembled the great-grandfather of modern machines for cleaning streets from snow in 1892.

The first wipers for a car were invented by Mary Anderson in 1903. She felt sorry for the driver, who had to stop the car every minute during a blizzard and shovel snow from the windshield.Coffee Filter

Thanks to Melitta Benz, lovers of sitting over a cup of coffee are spared from the tedious procedure of preparing a portion or two. Melitta twisted the first filter cone for coffee with her own hand from a sheet of a student's notebook in 1909.

This acoustic filter was invented by El Dolores Jones in 1917, after which the world around us became a little quieter.

Tired mom and housewife Marion Donovan in 1917 sat down at a sewing machine with a shower curtain and after several attempts created waterproof covers for a diaper. Unlike the rubber sliders that were already on the market, Donovan's design did not cause diaper rash and did not sting the baby's skin.

While making cookies according to the classic recipe, Ruth Wakefield in 1930 went to experiment by melting a bar of chocolate and adding it to the dough. It turned out to be a very tasty cookie, which Ruth and her husband later launched into mass production.

Hedy Lamarr gained notoriety after she starred in a film by Czechoslovak director Gustav Mahaty, where for the first time in the history of cinema there was a sexually explicit scene. For this, Adolf Hitler called her an enemy of the Third Reich, and Pope Pius XII urged good Catholics not to watch the film. But Hedi was not only interested in movies. In 1941, she patented a secret means of communication that dynamically changed the broadcast frequency to make it difficult for the enemy to intercept. Since 1962, this device has been used in American torpedoes, and is now used in mobile communications and Wi-Fi.

In 1965, Dr. Stephanie Kwolek invented the synthetic material Kevlar, which is five times stronger than steel. Her invention has saved thousands of lives of police officers, firefighters and the military. Kevlar became the basis for bulletproof vests.

Sculptor Patricia Billings set herself the task of creating a cement additive that would protect her creations from destruction. After several years of experimentation, in 1970 she finally achieved her goal by inventing indestructible plaster. Soon after, Billings discovered that the material was also surprisingly resistant to fire.