Woman inventor

Patricia Bath – An African American Woman Inventor

 

 

When I think of inventions, what comes to mind are those that we use everyday, such as computers or electricity. Inventions can be any new kind of technology though, so it can be something small like a swivel chair to something more important such as a medical technology. People have been inventing things for hundreds of years, but men tend to get the most recognition. Many women have contributed many technologies, such as sewing machines and medical technologies. It has become amazing what people can create to help us in our everyday lives. Medical technologies have especially been helpful in letting us live longer. Inventions such as birth control for women now help us to plan exactly when we want to have children, rather than having to plan everything else around suddenly being pregnant. It’s even come so far as doctors letting us choose the sex of our baby. Sometimes I wonder where we would be without technology; how would we live without computers making our lives easier or how our lives would be different without telephones, televisions, or vehicles. Our lives are so much easier than five hundred years ago and who knows where we’ll be in another five hundred years. What I decided to concentrate on for my project was an African-American woman who invented a very important medical technology and has accomplished a lot with this invention in her life. She is still alive so this invention is still relatively new, but has had a major impact on blind people and has greatly improved eye surgery. This woman’s name is Patricia Bath and she invented the Cataract Laserphaco Probe that vaporizes cataracts from a person’s eyes quickly and painlessly.