Having contributed to the industrial development of the nation, women hold patents in a wide range of fields. Listed below are some of the patents held by women inventors in the United States. 

Patentee	Date Issued	Patent No.	Description
Mary Kies	05-05-1809	no number	straw weaving with silk or thread
Martha J. Coston	04-05-1859	23,536	pyrotechnic night signals
	06-13-1871	115,935	improvement-pyrotechnic night signals
Clarissa Britain	08-11-1863	39,460	improvement in ambulances
	10-05-1863	40,157	improvement in boilers
Rebecca Sherwood	11-10-1863	40,577	reducing hemp, flax, etc. to fibrous substances
	12-13-1863	45,440	improvement in reducing straw and other fibrous substances for the manufacture of paper pulp
Mary Jane Montgomery	01-05-1864	41,167	improved war-vessel
	05-31-1864	42,958	improvement in locomotive wheels
	05-08-1866	54,580	improved apparatus for punching corrugated metals
Sarah P. Mather	07-05-1864	43,465	submarine telescope
Temperance P. Edson	07-04-1865	48,539	self-inflator raising sunken vessels
Margaret Knight	11-15-1870	109,224	improved paper-feeding machine
	07-11-1871	116,842	improved paper-bag machine
	10-28-1879	220,925	improved paper-bag machine
	09-16-1890	436,358	sole cutting machine
	12-30-1902	720,818	compound rotary engine
	01-06-1904	717,869	rotary engine
(w/J.M. Benjamin)	11-03-1904	743,293	automatic tool for boring or planing convex or cylindrical surfaces
	01-23-1912	1,105,761	resilient wheel
Augusta M. Rodgers	04-04-1871	113,348	car heater
	05-09-1871	114,605	improvement in conveyors of smoke and cinders for locomotives
	10-10-1871	119,790	improvement in conveyors
Maria L. Ghirardini	07-29-1873	141,217	rails for street railways
Emily E. Tassey	07-25-1876	180,286	improvement in apparatus for raising sunken vessels
	12-05-1876	183,998	improvement in dredging machines
	12-05-1876	184,996	improvement in siphon propeller-pump
	12-05-1876	194,997	improvement in propulsion of vessels
Sarah E. Saul	09-19-1876	182,485	improvement in metallic casings for lead pipes
Caroline S. Brooks	02-06-1877	187,095	improvement in methods of producing lubricated molds in plaster
Mary E. Walton	11-18-1879	221,880	locomotive and other chimneys
	02-08-1881	327,422	elevated railway
Maria E. Beasley	04-06-1880	226,264	life-raft
	08-02-1881	245,050	barrel-hoop driving machine
Evelyn F. French & Milton Clifford	11-09-1880	234,265	sound-deadening attachment for railway cars
Anna Connelly	08-23-1887	368,816	fire escape
Harriet W.R. Strong	12-06-1887	374,378	dam & reservoir construction
	11-06-1894	528,823	method of & means for impounding debris & storing water
Annie H. Chilton	07-28-1891	456,613	horse detacher & brake
	02-27-1894	515,651	combined horse detacher & brake
Letitia Geer	04-11-1899	622,848	medical syringes
Mary Anderson	11-10-1903	743,801	window cleaning device
Lizzie Dickelman	05-15-1917	1,219,267	grain storehouse construction
	05-05-1917	1,226,477	metal building plate
	01-13-1920	1,328,132	ventilated storage warehouse
El Dorado Jones	06-02-1917	1,229,471	exhaust attachment for gas engines
Ida R. Forbes	12-25-1917	1,251,210	electric hot water heater
Olive Dennis	11-27-1928	1,693,108	ventilator
Katharine B. Blodgett	04-12-1935	2,108,641	surface treatment of materials
	03-13-1938	2,220,660	film structure & preparation method
Henrietta Bradbury	12-01-1945	3,390,688	torpedo discharge means
Evelyn Berezin	11-17-1959	2,913,176	data processing system
Phyllis Hersh	02-21-1961	2,972,736	bi-directional magnetic tape
Jean H. Clark	03-06-1962	3,024,421	linear discriminator circuit
Erna S. Hoover	11-23-1971	3,623,007	feedback control monitor for stored program data processing system
Giuliana C. Tesora	03-20-1973	3,721,523	modification of reactive hydrogen containing polymer
Barbara S. Askins	07-18-1978	4,101,780	method of obtaining intensified image from developed photographic films and plates