10 Greatest Female Inventors Who Transformed The World

6. Ida Henrietta Hyde (September 8, 1857 – August 22, 1945)

Ida Henrietta Hyde was an American physiologist known for developing a micro-electrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell.

She developed instruments for monitoring physiological parameters in a marine animal that could be used in seawater. Her most well-known invention was an intracellular micropippette electrode, used for stimulating cells at the micro level while recording electrical activity within the cell without disturbing the cellular wall.

7. Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979)

Katharine Burr Blodgett was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1926.After receiving her master's degree; she was hired by General Electric, where she invented low-reflectance "invisible" glass.

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