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31 March 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news

Do you know who invented liquid paper or the first solar home heating system? Well, those inventors were women. And with Women's History Month coming to an end, and the celebration of Ada Lovelace Day last week, we tapped into author Susan Casey's book, Women Invent! and came up with 14 women inventors you probably never heard of.

Patsy Sherman, with partner Sam Smith, invented the fabric protector Scotchgard: In the early 1950s while working at the 3M Co., Patsy Sherman and her co-worker Sam Smith were trying to create a new latex or kind of rubber for use in the fuel lines of the then-newly developed jet engines. Accidentally, some of the material spilled onto the tennis shoe of one of the technicians. When it dried, Sherman and others tried to remove it with soapy water and organic solvents. Nothing would even wet the spill.

"No one had ever

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1 article from 2009