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This female inventor created the first computer program
She is famous for advancing human space exploration
She discovered it was possible to split an atom and she was also the first person to win two Nobel Prizes
She created an adventure game series “King’s Quest,” which went all the way to an eighth sequel
She was Google’s first female engineer in 1999
She invented the circular saw in 1812, which was a much more efficient way to cut wood
Her improved design of a life raft helped save over 700 lives on the Titanic
In 1887, she invented the first fire escape, which is now a required feature in NYC building codes
You can thank her for helping you drive in the rain, as she invented the windshield wiper in 1903
She invented a compiler that could translate written language into computer code, and was part of the team that developed COBOL, one of the first modern computer programming languages