WOMEN INVENTORS.
Despite the great part women bar# taken in helping to swell this year's number of inventions, a London daily representative was told that they have flatly refused to invent anything that would ba useful in domestic work.
Improvements in gramophones, new parts for wireless sets, and gadgets for the motor-car if you like, but anything that would help them at home—certainly not!
" There have been roughly thirty-eight thousand patents applied for this year," said Mr. George Rayner of the well-known London firm of patent agents. " Although one would hardly credit it, it is a fact that not one of the large number applied for by -women can bo termed of exclusive feminine interest.
" Not even a new frying pan or another knilting needle, not a new corset, has been invented—or, at least, its patent has not been apnlied for this-year. It is surprising. They seem to want to get away from affairs of the home as much as possible. " Suggest that they should invent a new type of saucepan or egg-cup. and they will turn up their nose and sniff."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20174, 7 February 1929, Page 5
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