Did You Know!

Did You Know that Dr. Maria Telkes is the first female to invent the solar heating system. Telkes was highly educated holding her doctoral degree in physical chemistry.  In 1948 Telkes built a heating system design for an experiment and it was places in a house in Dover, Massachusetts in which it provided solar heat.  Telkes was successful in her solar heating system and she went on to invent a distilling system for life rafts and a solar oven.

If you would like to learn more please visit www.inventions.org

 

Feminism

This week in in class we discussed "Baghdad Burning" and Riverbends blog. Each member of the class was responsible for defining different terms through out the book. My term to define was Feminism. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Feminism is "the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes". Does any one disagree with this definition or have anything to add on?

Welcome

Welcome to the Women, Community and Technology blog!