American Woman: 1991 Ann Tsukamoto

While working in Palo Alto in 1991, Asian American scientist Ann Tsukamoto was part of the team that patented the first method of isolating blood-forming stem cells in 1991.

Tsukamoto holds a total of 12 U.S. patents for her stem cell research, which has helped with the development of cancer treatments.

American Woman: 1988 Patricia E. Bathg

Patricia E. Bath, an ophthalmologist, was the first Black American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first Black female doctor to patent a medical device in the United States.

The device she invented was the Laserphaco Probe, which removed cataracts—cloudy blemishes in the eye that can lead to vision loss.

Bath’s new ways of removing cataracts was faster, more accurate and less invasive than previous methods.

American Woman: 1968 Marie Van Brittan Brown

In 1969, Marie Van Brittan Brown was a Black nurse and inventor in New York City who, together with her husband, Albert Brown, patented the first home security system.

Brown got the idea for the security system because she and her husband worked long hours as an electronics technician, and she often found herself coming home to their apartment and being by herself late at night.

The system that Brown invented involved a sliding camera that could capture images through four different peepholes in her door, TV monitors to display the camera images and two-way microphones that allowed her to talk with anyone outside her door.

American Woman: 1966 Stephanie L. Kwolek

Stephanie L. Kwolek invented synthetic fibers in 1966 Loom weaving in carbon fibre while working at DuPont’s Pioneering Research Laboratory in Wilmington, Delaware.

The most famous fiber she created was Kevlar—a strong, lightweight and heat-resistant synthetic fiber.

Stephanie L. Kwolek was a chemist. Kwolek patented the process for making Kevlar in 1966.

Kevlar is used in bulletproof vests and other protective equipment, and has also become a substitute for asbestos since the 1970s, when companies began to scale back on using the cancer-causing asbestos material.

American Woman: 1948 Bessie Virginia Blount

In 1948, an African American nurse and physical therapist invented a device that allowed her patients to feed themselves.

Her invention paved the way for modern feeding tubes.

Bessie Virginia Blount, also known as Bessie Blount Griffin, was an American nurse, physical therapist, inventor, handwriting expert and possibly the first Black woman to train at Scotland Yard’s Document Division.

In the 1940s, she who worked with World War II veterans in New York City’s Bronx Hospital (now part of BronxCare Health System), where she taught veterans with amputations to read and write with their teeth and feet.

American Woman: 1893 Margaret A. Wilcox

The first person to patent an automobile heater was Margaret A. Wilcox, an engineer in Chicago.

Wilcox’s 1893 design used heat from the car’s engine to keep drivers and passengers warm during trips.

Later engineers improved upon the idea by making the heat easier to regulate.

Wilcox’s other inventions included a combined clothes-and-dishwasher, which didn’t catch on in the same way.

American Woman: 1886 Josephine G. Cochran

Josephine G. Cochran was a wealthy socialite in Shelbyville, Illinois when she got the idea to invent a dishwasher.

Cochrane employed servants to perform housework in her mansion, but started washing her fine china herself when she discovered some of the servants had accidentally chipped them.

Cochrane found her brief exposure to housework unpleasant, and resolved to build a machine that could wash the dishes for her.

The result was the first commercially-successful dishwasher, which Cochrane patented in 1886.

American Woman: 1885 Sarah E. Goode

 

Sarah E. Goode qas an African American Chicago inventor and furniture store owner,

The furniture she invented was a desk that folded out into a bed, allowing the user to save space in a tiny apartment.

Goode received a patent In 1885 for her “Cabinet-Bed.”

Goode’s invention predated the 20th century’s pull-down Murphy beds and pull-out sofas.

With her Cabinet-Bed, Goode—who was born into slavery and won her freedom after the Civil War—became one of the first Black women to patent and invention with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

American Woman: 1880 Maria E. Beasley

 

In the early 1880s, when a new wave of European immigrants were sailing to the United States, a Philadelphia inventor named Maria E. Beasley designed an improved life raft.

Unlike the flat life rafts of the 1870s, Beasley’s raft had guard rails to help keep people inside during emergencies when they had to abandon ship.

Beasley patented her first life raft design in 1880 in both the United States and Great Britain, and received a second U.S. patent for an updated version of the raft in 1882.

Americna Woman: Our First Citizens

Women are the beating heart of America. Think about how difficult it must have been for women over two hundred years ago. They chose to accompany their men on a sailing ship meant more for cargo than comfort.  It was a long voyage, weeks at sea with risks, self-sacrifice and no guarantees. 

These incredible women joined together with men on a pilgrimage to find something so precious, they were willing to endure hardship and the unknown.

Successful, the first thing the women did was prepare a meal of thanksgiving to God.

In 1775. England’s monarchy claimed rule over the new land. The men and women settlers rejected the old life that they left behind. They were determined to maintain their freedom from England. It meant standing up for what they wanted against a powerful empire. The risks were high, but that’s what they did.

The American Revolution was a battle for freedom.

History recorded that the men were few against many professional soldiers. Women stepped up without hesitation. They sacrificed warm beds for cold nights, hunger, thirst, unimaginable fear and broken bones.

It was a WOMAN named Betsy Ross who sewed that first flag symbolizing the UNION of these brave men and women and the original 13 colonies. It has red and white stripes with a circle of stars in the middle of a blue background.

Our National Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner” tells the story of our FLAG at Fort McHenry.
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“Oh, say can you see,
  By the dawn's early light,
  What so proudly we hailed 
At the twilight's last gleaming,
  Whose broad stripes and bright stars, 
Thru the perilous fight,
  O'er the ramparts we watched
  Were so gallantly streaming?
  And the rockets red glare, 
The bombs bursting in air,
  Gave proof through the night
  That our flag was still there.


O, say, does that 
Star-Spangled Banner yet wave.  O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?"
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Like the men, women shed blood. Many died. They did all this to insure a better way of life for themselves and future generationns.

The bond these brave men and women formed was so strong, that even outnumbered, they won that battle and a lot more. The brave men and women had formed their “union” of courage to win victory for the new land they referred to as the United Colonies.

On September 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally named the land, “United States” of America.
 
When the United States Constitution was written in 1787, the first words documented a tribute to those brave men and women and the “union” they formed.

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"WE THE PEOPLE of the United States in order to form a more perfect UNION, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Republic for the United States of America.”
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The goal of a Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extremes of tyranny. What exists in America under the Democrats is a far cry from the Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth.

Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a democracy. Democrats as far back as President Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi and of course, Joe Biden have all been heard saying, "In a democracy…" This is, of course, completely untrue.

It's another hoax by Democrats who over the decades have tried to brainwash Americans by repeating the word “democracy” over and over. They even may have washed the word Republic from the Internet.

It was a WOMAN who was excited to know what our Founders created for America.  She asked, “Well, Doctor, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” Benjamin Franklin smartly replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

The U.S. Constitution was ratified on or about 1788, It was official. America’s “First Veterans” of the American Revolution became our “First Citizens.”

Those brave men, women and children were no longer pilgrims, settlers, colonists, foreigners, immigrants...
 
They became, “We the People,” and ESTABLISHED THE LEGACY OF CITIZENSHIP  to “ourselves and our posterity” meaning our descendants for generations to come in perpetuity.

We should remember always that citizenship had been earned through bravery, bloodshed and sacrifice” of men and WOMEN.

What they accomplished -- is so important. That’s why the founders of our country wrote it at the very beginning of our treasured United States Constitution.