Comments on: PROVING WOMEN ALSO HAVE IDEAS (Jan, 1937)

By: Evelyn Yvonne Theriault

Evelyn Yvonne Theriault — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:02:45 +0000

Came across your site while researching General Electric Co. of Schenectady, N.Y. Thanks for posting this funny – and illuminating – article. I’ll probably use it in my classroom but in the meantime I’ve linked it to one of my posts at A Canadian Family.
Thanks,
Evelyn in montreal

By: MaggieL

MaggieL — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:17:23 +0000

The actual problem is getting men to think when women are involved.

One can’t expect much in the way of details on a single page, most of which is cheesecake.

Let’s see…the light that comes on when the phone goes off-hook? I’m sure the Bell engineers who designed the Princess phone took credit for that idea…looks like there’s some “prior art” here.

And 43 patents issued to one person before WWII? No ideas there, obviously.

Jane Plant was working as an aircraft mechanic at 14. I wonder if she got any work at College Park Airport (nice place, I’ve flown in there) when she got back from vaca?

Sophie got paid for 80 suggestions in nine years by GE. I’m sure they just wanted to give some money away.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:55:55 +0000

This one little page is hysterical; it reminds me of the old Time-Life series of books on the Old West â€” 26 volumes: “The Miners”, “The Cowboys”, “The Journalists”, “The Loggers”, “The Ranchers”, “the Gamblers”, “Great Chiefs”…and finally, one lonely volume, “The Women.”

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:52:37 +0000

Ideas? Women?
It’ll never catch in, I tell ya.

By: Don Fearn

Don Fearn — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:53:07 +0000

Yeah; *I* am not going to believe women can have inventive ideas without PROOF!

By: Stannous

Stannous — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:48:07 +0000

“Proof”?
There’s almost no details about any particular invention much less ‘proof’.