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From the time when beulah henry was a child in the late nineteenth century, she dreamed of ways to make life easier. Ultimately, this motivation leads her to secure dozens of patents and will win the title: Lady Edison.
When she died in the early seventies of the twentieth century, she kept much more patents than any other woman, according to the Patent Office and brands of the United States, and in 2006 it was recruited in the Hall of Celebrities of the National Inventors for her contributions to technological innovation.
“I am invent because I cannot help him,” she said often. “Just new things have pushed me.”
It was her first model, when she was nine years old, it was a mechanism that allowed a man to raise his hat to a passer -by while he was carrying a newspaper at the same time.
The next visions continued. In 1912, while she was in college, she got her first patent (No. 1,037,762) for the ice cream maker who was working with minimal ice, which is not available at that time. This was not a commercial success, but that did not prevent her from the dream of other innovations.
Patent No. 1,037,762
“Ice cream freezer”
It seems that anything and everything appears to arouse: games, typewriting machines, sewing machines, coffee utensils, curls, can be able to congress, postal envelopes. Her accomplishments were more prominent because she had no knowledge of mechanics and lacked artistic vocabulary to describe what she was trying to do.
She worked from a series of hotel wings – one of the correspondents who visited what he considered to look like the buddour more than a workplace – she rented models, painters and patent lawyers to achieve their visions. Sometimes, she sold her ideas to manufacturers who applied for their patents.
Henry said that the final producer is in her head, “you can see a book, image, or flower that you hold in front of you.” Its challenge was to deliver this vision clearly enough so that others could reach reality.
In 1965, Winston-Winston Journal and Sentinel told Winston Journal and Sentinel:
Beulah Louise Henry was born on September 28, 1887, in RaleIight, NC, her father, Walter R. Henry, a connoisseur and artistic collection was active in local democratic policy. Her mother, Piula (Williamson), was an artist. Her brother Biton was a songwriter.
Henry claimed that he is from Benjamin Harrison, the twenty -third president of the United States, and from the revolutionary war champion Patrick Henry.
In the interviews, she said that her ability to innovate may be affected by a nervous condition called Synesthesia, where the unrelated senses are associated – some sounds or tastes may relate to certain colors, for example. “I have a million percent,” she says.
After graduating from Elizabeth College, in Charlotte, North Carolina, she moved with her mother to New York City to follow her career.
One of the ideas included Parasol with Snap-on covers in different colors that can be changed to suit women’s clothes. It was not an easy sale.
Patents No. 1,492,725 and 1,593,494
“Parasol” and “Endowment of Endowment”
One after another, experts told her, “This cannot be done,” and quoted her as saying in the Rale News newspaper and observer in 1923. “But I learned that it could be done.”
The end result, described in the press as a “intelligent Miracle”, was so popular that it had created Henry an umbrella and Parasol to make and market it. LORD & Taylor Parachi Display in its Windows, and they sold thousands.
For a while, Henry put her energy to invent children’s toys, especially dolls. I used springs and tubes to make them form, flashing and crying; Radio placed inside one. Its most popular creation was the Miss Illusion doll, with eyes that changed its color to suit wig. It also created a luxury game cow called Milka-Moo, which took advantage of the milk and had a secret cabin for the soap tape.
Later, he turned to the typewriter. Of 10 or what
It was “just a look at something, Henry He said“Think,” There is a better way to do this, “and the idea comes to me.”
In 1941, I took a long look at sewing machines and chose the double chain stitching machine (No. 2230,896), which was working without the rollers that the sewing had to stop and change it periodically.
It also found a way to make cooking easier. She said for years, “The nullification of the coffee bowl told me,” Do something with me, “but I didn’t know what one day when I was grilling, I knew what I had to do with this movement.”
And she continued: “I worked on a device that escapes from the juice in a toaster and the meat became alone.” She obtained a patent for that in 1962.
Journalists photographed her in super terms: It was “a great personality,” one of them pointed out; Another said: “The million is elegant”, “almost a fantastic, almost feminine” and “more like the opera star is more than an equipped scientific person.”
Those who visited her at work in the hotel room often discovered a group of incense and mentioned her pink appearance or the large telescope that she placed near a window so that you can look at the night sky. Then there were pets: at different times, kept small weapons, parrot, or tropical ornols, many doves and cocci, and cats called Chickdee.
Henry was an activist in the American Museum of Natural History, the National Association of Odubon, the New York Women’s Association and the New York Microscopic Association, among other organizations. She never married.
Her distant inspiration was a mystery of her mother, with whom she lived a lot of time.
Her mother said in 1923: “I don’t know what I do from her. She wakes up at night and wanders around conducting experiments with electrical lights and water system, or looking for or cutting sheets of brown paper,” her mother said in 1923.
Henry gave a mystical explanation to coercion.
“I came to believe in controlling the soul,” News Tribune told Takoma, Washington, in 1939. I am sure that the ideas that flow into my mind in the early hours of the morning are messages from a directive spirit. “
She was 85 years old when she died in February 1973, with the patent 49 and the last – the nature of that time was lost – pending.
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