Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-04
WOMEN AS INVENTORS.
Some of the Patents Granted Them
Field for Great Achievements

Some of the Patents Granted Them-A
Field for Great Achievement.
That women are coming to the front as in.
ventors and patentees is evinced by the fact
that in twenty-five weeks patents were
granted 10 fifty-three women.
Within this century, or since the year l7gO,
when the first patent was taken out by a
woman, $500 inventions have been patented
by women. The first woman TO get an in
vention patented was certain Mary Keis.
and her discovery was one for weaving straw
with silk or thread In 1915 Mary Brush re-
ceived IA patent for corset. Sophia Asher
followed in 1919 with carbonated liquid
cream OF tartar, and Julia Phantom. i'm IS22
with foot stove. After that date the en-
tries are annual, with the exceptions of the
years 1927, fS29, 1880, 1882. 1859, 1874,
1916 lSj3 and lS54-5j
From the first year of this century to 1858
precisely fifty patents were granted TO wo-
men Up 10 the outbreak of the civil war
patent were granted to only two southern
Indies, one TO a Mrs. Agdalena S Goodman
of Florida, for an Improvement in broom
brushes in 1919
During the same period New York had fur
pished Il woman patentees; Massachusetts,
!; Ohio, 2, and Maine, Connecticut and New
Jersey | each.
The patents were by no means confined to
domestic arts and conveniences, or to the hv-
giene or adornment of women For instance
IN 1864, Miss MOntgomery brought forward
an improved war vessel. In the same year a
Young woman from Michigan introduced the
improved lantern dinner pail Miss Mont
gomery also devised all improvement in loco
motive wheels, having, by the way, many as
sociates IN railroad inventions, even to an
apparatus for destroying vegetation 0R.il-
roads.
One woman in Iowa made an Improvement
Tor cigars; another IN Philadelphia offers a
mustache spoon; ii third In Boston contrib.
utes Il trousers tree. There is an apparatus
for killing mosquitoes patented by a woman.
The question naturally arises, Did that WON
an make her fortunet
Some Of the more bizarre devices are for
inducing sleep, for restoring facial symmetry
ami for exposing hair TO the action Of heated
vapors Mrs. Maria Beazley, OF Philadel-
pima, is a clever inventor who levits on the
shipping departments % the oil and sugar re-
finerles eternal obligations as well rs profit
able royalties. BY means Of her invention
hundreds of ready made barrels are tur.,t
out in a day.
Mrs. Emma D. Mills, one of the most ener-
getic advocates in New York of the intro
duction of women into occupations hitherto
monopolized by men, has invented a patent
typewriter attachment, has patented it in her
own name, and is to manufacture and sell it
herself. For this purpose Mrs. Mills has eveI-
had 10 have special tools made, but she has in
no way yielded TO obstacles that To most wo-
men would seem unconquerable The attach
meut lS ON the order of the governor OF An
engine, and stops all action of the machinery.
Ii seems that an inventor who makes her own
tools and with them manufactures her own
patent ought to succeed.
The celebrated English actress, Mrs. Ken
dial, is the inventor of a lamp and candle
shade, from the sales of which she makes a
handsome profit. The wife OF New York
banker has invented a machine for making
wire rope, the patent Of which she has sold to
IA San Francisco firm for 81, 900 cash and a
royalty. The way she came TO hit upon this
was from a device she used to twist her
worsted. Miss Helen Blanchard has made a
fortune through the invention OF a simple at
tachment for a sewing machine
hand refrigerator and lunch box has
been invented by Miss Phelps, of Dorchester,
Mass 1t Is particularly suitable for lunches
and picnics, and has a compartment for ice.
The smallest size holds three pounds and a
half Of ice in a zinc lined box, and it is said
to last for seventeen hours.
Miss Proctor, of Lima, O., has patented a
process by which it is claimed 10, 600 cubic
feet Of Illuminating gas can be extracted
from one barrel Of Lima oil
Blanche Willis Howard, the novelist. has
patented a music rack and bath shoe.-New
York Star