"50 inventions made by women" | Let's play a game a d fact-check how much of this is actually true, shall we?

Oncefa2 · 2020-05-07T13:51:17+00:00

Women have invented lots of things in history.

I'd be more interested in the claim that female patent applications are less likely to be approved.

Is this because their applications are less likely to be unique? Could it be because most corporate patents are drafted and filed by male corporate drones, thus artificially creating a statistical anomaly for men?

Tmomp · 2020-05-08T12:30:13+00:00

I picked one at random:

Electric refrigerator Inventor: Florence Parpart Year / period: 1914

In a time when people were still using ice-boxes, Parpart patented an electric refrigerator that she successfully marketed and improved upon for years.

Wikipedia gave a longer history. Wikipedia doesn't mention Parpart. If she played a role, someone should edit her in. Whether she played a role or not, it seems crazy to suggest one person, male or female, invented the electric refrigerator. Some highlights:

The history of artificial refrigeration began when Scottish professor William Cullen designed a small refrigerating machine in 1755. Cullen used a pump to create a partial vacuum over a container of diethyl ether, which then boiled, absorbing heat from the surrounding air.[3] The experiment even created a small amount of ice, but had no practical application at that time.

In 1805, American inventor Oliver Evans described a closed vapor-compression refrigeration cycle for the production of ice by ether under vacuum. In 1820, the British scientist Michael Faraday liquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperatures, and in 1834, an American expatriate in Great Britain, Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system. It was a closed-cycle device that could operate continuously.[4] A similar attempt was made in 1842, by American physician, John Gorrie,[5] who built a working prototype, but it was a commercial failure. American engineer Alexander Twining took out a British patent in 1850 for a vapor compression system that used ether.

The first practical vapor compression refrigeration system was built by James Harrison, a Scottish Australian. His 1856 patent was for a vapor compression system using ether, alcohol or ammonia. He built a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria, and his first commercial ice-making machine followed in 1854. Harrison also introduced commercial vapor-compression refrigeration to breweries and meat packing houses, and by 1861, a dozen of his systems were in operation.

In 1913, refrigerators for home and domestic use were invented by Fred W. Wolf of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with models consisting of a unit that was mounted on top of an ice box.[7][8] In 1914, engineer Nathaniel B. Wales of Detroit, Michigan, introduced an idea for a practical electric refrigeration unit, which later became the basis for the Kelvinator. A self-contained refrigerator, with a compressor on the bottom of the cabinet was invented by Alfred Mellowes in 1916. Mellowes produced this refrigerator commercially but was bought out by William C. Durant in 1918, who started the Frigidaire company to mass-produce refrigerators. In 1918, Kelvinator company introduced the first refrigerator with any type of automatic control. The absorption refrigerator was invented by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters from Sweden in 1922, while they were still students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. It became a worldwide success and was commercialized by Electrolux. Other pioneers included Charles Tellier, David Boyle, and Raoul Pictet. Carl von Linde was the first to patent and make a practical and compact refrigerator.

Blauwpetje · 2020-05-08T13:56:15+00:00

No doubt they invented 50 things. No doubt they invented 500 things. It is a strawman to state people who believe in differences between men and women don't think women can invent things. Only, on average men invent more.

Title	"50 inventions made by women" \| Let's play a game a d fact-check how much of this is actually true, shall we?
Author	Strikester101
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Date	May 7, 2020 1:18 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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