Did you know that the stars in the night sky are mostly made of hydrogen and helium? You can thank Cecilia Payne for that groundbreaking discovery! Despite her work initially being dismissed by male colleagues, Cecilia Payne’s genius unlocked the secret composition of stars, reshaping our understanding of the universe.

But her journey wasn’t all starlight and brilliance, she had to fight against the odds as a woman in early 20th-century science. So, the next time you gaze at the stars and think "they are fireflies that got stuck up in that big bluish black thing", remember Cecilia Payne: astrophysicist, trailblazer, pioneer, and the woman who proved the stars are much more than just decorations in the sky.

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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/43/1/1.27/203723?login=true
https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile
https://www.ans.org/news/article-6028/cecilia-paynegaposchkin-the-woman-who-first-grasped-the-elemental-power-of-stars/

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Did you know that Lizzie Magie is the true inventor of Monopoly? Well, technically, she invented and patented The Landlord's Game, a board game initially deemed "too complicated" to achieve widespread popularity. Despite this, her creation started spreading across the U.S., with players crafting their own personalized versions of the game.
That is, until someone stepped in, declared, "Hey, I've got a great idea!" and patented what we now know as Monopoly.
Join us as we unravel the drama behind one of the most iconic board games of the last century. Meet Lizzie Magie: feminist, inventor, game designer, actress, writer, and passionate Georgist!

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game#cite_note-17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance_(game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1905-12-17/ed-1/seq-59/#loclr=blogadm
https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2022/09/elizabeth-j-magie/

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Earning both public recognition for her inventions and making "barrel-loads" of money (wink, wink!), Maria E. Beasley was an inventor extraordinaire. With 15 patents to her name and millions of dollars in income, she is best known for her barrel-hooping machine, her revolutionised design of the life raft, and anti-derailment modifications made to trains. How exactly did this 19th-century American engineer such a wide variety of inventions?! Follow us in episode sixteen of The Inventing HerStory Podcast to learn all about Maria's trailblazing career in a male-dominated field, and how her legacy continues to impact modern engineering today.


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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_E._Beasley
https://www.stmarys.sa.edu.au/women-in-stem-maria-beasley.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-champaign-daily-gazette-woman-and-ho/90478469/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-inquirer-she-has-a-barrel-mrs-mari/90480777/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newton-enterprise-a-lady-inventor/90479179/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_E._Beasley#Barrel-hooping_machine
https://intrans.iastate.edu/news/maria-beasley-engineering-dynamo/
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002314379/publication/US245050A?q=pn%3DUS245050
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002326239/publication/US256951A?q=pn%3DUS256951
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002673142/publication/US604513A?q=pn%3DUS604513

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