A day without a woman would also be a day without beer, good coffee and Wi-Fi. Your hair would be messy, and you'd have to deal with wet diapers. Without women, life would be less convenient, less developed and certainly less fun. Here are 10 things that wouldn't exist without women.
Here are 10 things that them it wouldn't be without women!
Beer
Just love a cold beer on a hot day? While men may indeed be the target demographic for most advertisements for this drink, we have women to thank for its very existence. According to research by historian Jane Peyton, the oldest evidence of beer in Britain dates back thousands of years, when women brewed beer at home and thus 'founded' the first breweries.
Wi-Fi
Before you complain again that your Wi-Fi is slow, consider the decades of innovation that have gone into making it as fast as it is today. But it wouldn't exist without the actress Hedy Lamarr, who got tired of Hollywood and preferred to devote herself to scientific experiments. To help the Allies in World War II, she presented the U.S. Navy with a patent for a wide-spectrum radio receiver, today considered the precursor to Wi-Fi.
Brush
While we don't know whose invention the brush or comb really was, we do know who first patented it in 1898. And it was a woman, black Lyda Newman. She is a pioneer in the use of synthetic bristles.
Monopolies
The popular board game was invented by a woman and credited to a man. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie patented her first version in 1903, and 30 years later, Charles Darrow 'stole' Maggie's idea and turned the game into almost what we know today. In 1935, he sold it to Parker Brothers.
Morning coffee
The next time you make yourself a fresh filter coffee, give Melitta Bentz a toast. Thanks to the invention of a German housewife, patented in 1908, today you can drink your favorite coffee without having to grind it in the morning.
Harry Potter
With half a billion Harry Potter books translated into more than 70 languages, it's safe to say that his magical journey has been experienced by a large part of the human population. Without JK Rowling, we would have a lot less magic in our lives.
Disposable diapers
If you're changing dirty diapers, remember Marion Donovan, the inventor of the first disposable diapers. Marion was tired of finding a child with a wet diaper every day at daycare, so she set out to create a waterproof one. Although she patented her invention only in 1951, she never found a customer who would buy her idea - men in companies did not find such diapers necessary.
Makeup sponge or beautyblender
Backstage at fashion weeks, in the handbags of supermodels and even in our toiletry bags, these are the places where the pink teardrop makeup sponge is most likely to be found. Beautyblender is a real phenomenon. Today, 17 such sponges are sold every minute, and the sponges first appeared in stores in 2003. At that time, only one woman used them - the very resourceful and skilled makeup artist Rea Ann Silva.
Cookies with chocolate
In 1928, Ruth Graves Wakefield, who ran the Toll House Inn, came up with a great idea: she used chocolate instead of caramel in her cookies. There are several stories, but today it is believed that she used Nestlé chocolate, which she cut into smaller pieces. Soon after, Nestlé bought both the rights to the recipe and the Toll House name.
Web browser
The first computer programmer was a woman named Ada Lovelace. She lived in London from 1815 to 1852 and was instrumental in the creation of Charles Babbage's calculating machine. You can thank her for all the popular apps and websites you use every day.
