She asked how everything worked and thought about how to improve it. She was called "Lady Edison" after Thomas Alva, inventor of the light bulb.
She is known as "Lady Edison", a nickname used to compare her with Thomas Alva Edison, creator, among other things, of the incandescent light bulb.
The “Edison” woman was actually named Beulah Louise Henry. She was born in 1887 in Raleigh, an American town in North Carolina. She was from a wealthy family and according to what the Women with Science site publishes, she has about 110 inventions and 49 of her own patents.
The story about this figure of the 20th century tells that when she was a little girl she asked the functioning of everything that crossed her eyes. And then she was looking for a way to improve what already existed.
What did “Lady Edison” invent?
This is how her first invention came about, in 1912: “an ice cream machine that included a freezer chamber surrounded by an insulating structure,” reviews Women with Science. This device made the product quickly and with minimal use of ice.
A year later she patented a bag whose covers could be interchanged. It served so that people could combine different outfits with the item. In addition, to this same bag, she patented the integration of different zippers that divided the bag into several compartments.
Beulah Louise Henry did not invent the umbrella as such, but the structure of the article that we use today is to protect ourselves from the sun and rain while walking down the street.
Most of the inventions of "Lady Edison" were designed for women. These bags with interchangeable covers even modified and attached a detachable handle to make them serve as makeup cases.
She also invented a hair curler, a beauty kit, and a sponge rubber soap holder. Likewise, a material to fill the dolls and that these toys weigh less for the girls, according to Collective Culture.
Another invention on dolls that Beulah Louise Henry is credited with is making a mechanism in which the toy could take any shape, such as folded arms and legs, and then return them to their original shape.
Other notable inventions of hers include the bobbinless sewing machine, the can opener, and the direct and return mail envelope. Beulah Louise Henry died on February 26, 1973, at the age of 85. Her name will never be forgotten, since she appears among multiple inventions in history.
