Author: Pru Barrett

 “The only sound knowledge I possess is the realization of my own little worth” Betty Julia Sullivan was a female...

Ella Cora Hind was born in Toronto in 1861 to parents Edwin and Jane, with Huguenot and English stock on...

Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, Amy Smith is an inventor, teacher and founder of MIT D-Lab and Senior Lecturer of Mechanical...

Margaret was born in York, Maine – one of a large family and was, according to historian Henri Petroski, known...

Hannah Wilkinson Slater (15-12-1774 – 02-10-1812) Hannah Wilkinson Slater was an early American pioneer and inventor. She grew up in...

Sybilla Righton Masters can lay claim to being the first person living in the American colonies to be awarded an...

An interesting candidate for this archive – her links to milling are somewhat tenuous – the link being green energy...

Maria Christina Bruhn was Sweden’s first female inventor in the field of military technology. Born in Stockholm in 1732, she...

Countess Eva Ekeblad née Eva De La Gardie (10/07/1724 – 15/05/1786) was born into the Swedish aristocracy, and was a...