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= Strand 6: Women and Technology =
 * 1900 - 2009**

[|1905 Mary Anderson patented the windshield wiper] [|Mary Phelps Jacob's new undergarment]
 * Decade: 1900 - 1909**

1910 [|The World of Women's Magazines 1910] > 1919,[|Alice Parker of Morristown, New Jersey, invented a new and improved gas heating furnace]
 * Decade: 1910 - 1919**

1[|924 Anna Keichline patented a kitchen design that included sloped counter-top and glass-door cabinets] 1929 <[|Anna Keichline patented a design for a space saving bed that folded away into the wall]
 * Decade: 1920 - 1929**

[|Frances] Perkins radio address for Social Security. [|Amelia Earhart] promoted women in flight.
 * Decade: 1930 - 1939**

[|Jacqueline Cochran was the director of women pilots WWII.]  [|Nancy Love and WWII air service.] 1945 [|Grace Hopper] recorded the first actual computer "bug"
 * Decade: 1940 - 1949**

1951 [|Bessie Blount patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.] 1954 [|Gertrude Elion invented the leukemia-fighting drug] 6-mercaptopurine and drugs that facilitated kidney transplants. 1956 [|Liquid Paper - Bette Nesmith Graham]
 * Decade: 1950 - 1959**

1966 [|Lillian Gilbreth] became the fist women to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering. 1964 [|Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was the 1964 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry]
 * Decade: 1960 - 1969**

1978 [|Barbara Askins patented a method of enhancing the pictures using radioactive materials] [|Rosalyn Yalow] wins Nobel Prize for medicine.
 * Decade: 1970 - 1979**

1980 [|Valerie Thomas received a patent in 1980 for inventing an illusion transmitter] 1987 [|Ellen Ochoa invented optical analysis systems] 1988 [|Patricia Bath transformed eye surgery by using a laser device]
 * Decade: 1980 - 1989**

1991 [|Ann Tsukamoto is the co-patentee of a process to isolate the human stem cell] 1993 [|Betty Rozier and Lisa Vallino], a mother and daughter team, invented an intravenous catheter shield 1997 [|Patricia Billings invented a indestructible and fireproof building material called geobond.] 1999 [|Randice-Lisa Altschul creates the world's first disposable cell phone]
 * Decade: 1990 - 1999**

[|Eleanor Smeal] credits technology for helping to mobilize women. [|Shirin Ebadi] won Nobel Prize.
 * Decade: 2000 - 2009**