Overlooked Female Inventors in History

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In celebration of International Women’s Month, the UUDeLand Book Club will introduce us to several important, often overlooked, female inventors. Dr. Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth is the first industrial/organizational psychologist and pioneer of ergonomics. Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) was written about her. Actor, Hedy Lamar was an Austrian/American inventor, who co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Murasaki Shikibu, at the Japanese Imperial court wrote The Tale of Genji, one of the world’s first novels (~1000 AD). 

Deb McShane will be the service leader.