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Beulah Henry
Various Inventions
- Invented in many different fields. She received
her first patent at the age of twenty-five for a vacuum ice cream
freezer.
- Beulah Henry has been called "the lady Edison" because
of her relentless pursuit of inventive thinking. In 1912 she
developed her first of over a hundred patented inventions –
a vacuum ice cream freezer.
- You can also thank Ms. Henry for improvements to
typewriters, early concepts of duplicating written
documents, and bobbin-free sewing machines. She invented for
herself and for companies who hired her to make improvements
to their existing products.
- She was very smart and very rich – she founded a number
of manufacturing companies to produce her creations.
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