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Núria Salan

President at Catalan Society of Technology @ President at Catalan Society of Technology

Bio

Professor at UPC-BarcelonaTECH, President of Catalan Society of Technology, Researcher in Advanced Materials and in Gender Issues in TechEducation. From "The (in)visible ingenuity" project, she is doing a hard effort to rescue the names of female inventors, dessapeared from textbooks and from history

Conference: The (in)visible ingenuity

The (in)visible ingenuity This talk is about female inventors disappeared from textbooks and from history (from Mary the Jewess and her "Bain Marie" to Stephanie Kwolek with Kevlar, through Josephine Cochrane and the dishwasher machine or Mary Anderson with wiper, or Hedy Lamarr and wifi, or Martha Coston with flare, or Sarah Mather with periscope ... I have more than 7000 names related to their inventions, and I can include a brief history behind the inventions.