WOMEN INVENTORS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19032, 9 June 1924, Page 7

WOMEN INVENTORS

Many devices to simplify household work have recently come from the brains of women. In the model room of the International Institute of Inventors. 33 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, there are kettles which in the act of pouring will strain vegetables, skimmed milk, treacle, or rice and water, states an English exchange*. In bewildering variety, there is an allrubber tooth-brush, for cleaning spaces between teeth; a flat-iron grip, invented bv a woman who was sevorelv burned bv touching an unprotected iron top; a ton with metal cones that needs no washers, non-slippingl clothes peg. and n. on re-like cot, the protecting sides of which can be adjusted to form a full-size bed. These are only a fraction of women’s recent contributions towards less drudgery in the home. Since 1914 women inventors have increased almost tenfold, according to

Major E. H. Clifton, vice-chairman of the institute. This is because the women, left by themselves in many instances for the first time to maintain a home, set to work to avoid difficulties.