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Women Inventors in The Susquehanna Valley

Women Inventors in The Susquehanna Valley

Innovation doesn't always arrive with smoke pouring from a factory chimney or a locomotive roaring down the tracks. Sometimes it begins quietly. Such is the case of several women inventors in the Susquehanna Valley.

September 02, 2026 · Terry Diener · Additional Credits: Credits: Women Inventors To Who Patents Have Been Granted by the United States Government 1790 to July 1, 1888, Compiled Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Patents (1888); Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter, December 2009, pp. 5-8; United States Patent and Trademark Office