Women as Inventors.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 6, 2 April 1906, Page 134

Women as Inventors.

Women as well as men have achieved success with inventions A French lady has received no fewer than 18 medals and diplomas at European exhibitions for her machine for cutting metal plates. Most people will remember the name of Miss Hosmer m connection with an invention for converting lime into marble As far back as the year 1845 Miss Sarah Mather, an Englishwoman, invented a submarine telescope It might not be expected that women's inventions would range far from the home department, but such is by no means the case, tor among the mechanical devices invented by women are such out-of-the-way notions as a machine for driving barrel hoops, a steam generator, a bailing press, a steam and fume box, an automatic floor for elevator rafts, a rail for street railways, an electric illuminating apparatus, packing for piston rods, car couplings, electric battery, locomotive wheels, materials for packing journals, boring machine for

drilling gun stocks, a stock car, an apparatus for destroying vegetation on railways, another for removing snow from the tracks, a non-inductive electric cable, an apparatus for raising sunken vessels, a dredging machine, a method of constructing screw propellers, locomotive and other chimneys, a railway tie, and a covering for the slot of elevated railways This record is an altogether astonishing one, and shows that, where women are free to work according to their bent, and to employ their powers to the best of their ability, they are unq-.estionably able to accomplish great things.