Women Inventors Across Cultures and Time
A seminar summary notes Ada Bowles on women inventors from ancient China and India to 19th century America. It traces origins of silk weaving and lace to women, Harriet Hosmer’s marble method, and a rise in women patentees from 1808 onward, highlighting 19th century gains and 1884–1895 patent growth led by schools, farms, and hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada C. Bowles
Woman’s Journal
China
India
Harriet Hosmer
Rome
Mary Rees
Patent Office
Women Inventors and Their Notable Patents
A collection notes Ada Van Pelt and other women who patented devices for water storage, mail signaling, satchel bags, screw making, and shoe production. It highlights Ada Van Pelt as Oakland postmaster’s wife and cites a $20 000 offer for early patent rights, plus a claim of $2 500 000 saved by the Burden shoe process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada van Pelt
Oakland
Cal
Washington
Private School Opens in Masonic Lodge Building
In the lower story of the Masonic Lodge building once the old Baptist church a private school will open on September 4 1899. The program covers primary preparatory and high school branches with faithful service promised to pupils and public patronage urged by teachers Mrs Edna Minkert and Miss Mary Minkert. Also an ad seeks a good sized work horse via W P Wooten at 240.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Lodge
Old Baptist Church
Edna Minkert
Mary Minkert
New York Central Eyes Suburban Real Estate Push
The New York Central Railroad resumes talks to buy 195 acres along the Harlem river west of Cedar Park ridge as part of a broad plan to liquidate central New York properties. The deal follows a $2,145,000 Astor stake and hints at major expansion including new stations in Albany and Syracuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aster
Harlem River
Cedar Park Ridge
New York Central Railroad
William Waldorf Astor
New York Central
William K. Vanderbilt
Syracuse
The
Central
Albany
the Central
Poughkeepsie
Schenectady
Rochester
Buffalo
Treasury
Hague Conference Reflections and Texas News Roundup
Japanese delegates aboard the Campania report the Hague conference had no tangible results but may curb war by promoting arbitration. Texas brief items note two elderly pioneers dying in Rusk, tobacco shipments from Willis, and Texas military uniforms for Dewey reception. Other items cover a mule injury in Gainesville, cocaine crackdown in Sherman, cadet hazing dismissal, a Cramp shipyards strike, typhoid deaths near New Braunfels, heat death in New Braunfels, and a boy's broken thigh in Colorado Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Campania
T. Sakamoto
Tamaki
The
Hague
Sakamoto
Japan
United States
Philippine
China
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gilmore
the Daily Eagle
Bryan
Texas
Connelly
Palmer & Carnes
Malcolm CaBnts
Women Inventors
Harriet Strong
California
W. P. Wooten
Emmet's Prescription
Pharmacy
Gay
EMMEL
Dansby
Vienna
New York State
Chase & Sanborn
Emperor
Ferndale Canned
New York Central Road
Rusk, Tex
Jefferson Shook
Thomas Singletary
Willis Tobacco
Willis, Tex
Louis Dolphin
Willis
Galveston
Massachusetts
Illinois
Florida
Georgia
Dewey
Austin
New York City
Scurry
State Volunteer Guard
Gainesville
Tex
Joe Poindexter
Poindexter
Sherman
Military Academy
P. F. Smith
Nebraska
Philadelphia
Cramp’s
New Braunfels
George Heser
Here
H. E. Lenzen
Landa
Colorado
Hunter Looney
R. H. Looney
Mawhinney’s
John Wittman
Bryan, Texas
Reasona
Burt Norwood
J. M. Caldwell
Agt
Tyler Haswell
Geo. W. Higgs
Main Street
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