Text & images © Deborah Jaffé 2011
Site design © Alice Krelle 2011
Site design © Alice Krelle 2011
Women + Innovation
Since the publication of Ingenious Women in 2003, there has been great interest in women and their achievements as innovators. Deborah continues to update her original research of those women living between 1637 and 1914, as well as looking at more recent examples. These include women who have patented their inventions, registered designs, started companies or who, as widows, have successfully taken over their deceased husbands' works. All are evaluated within the context of the economic, social and technological frameworks of the times in which they lived.
Deborah is a patron of ideas21 and frequently lectures on Ingenious Women.
In July 2011, the paper Innovating Women: Illuminating Achievement and Success, which Deborah co-authored with Professor Pooran Wynarczyk (Business School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), was presented at the Triple Helix IX International Conference, Stanford University, USA.
Deborah's paper Utopia - Clara Louisa Wells was presented at the Alternative Worlds Series at the IGRS, University of London, in May 2011. Clara Louisa Wells is one of her Ingenious Women who spent over 40 years travelling across Europe devising schemes and petitioning governments in her hope of improving society.
Deborah features in the article Engineering's most ingenious women, by Christine Evans-Pughe, published in E&T - Engineering and Technology Magazine, 16 May 2011. Click here to view it.
In 2009 Deborah and Sylvia Katz jointly edited an edition of Plastiquarian which looked at how plastics have influenced women's lives both as innovators and consumers.
Since the publication of Ingenious Women in 2003, there has been great interest in women and their achievements as innovators. Deborah continues to update her original research of those women living between 1637 and 1914, as well as looking at more recent examples. These include women who have patented their inventions, registered designs, started companies or who, as widows, have successfully taken over their deceased husbands' works. All are evaluated within the context of the economic, social and technological frameworks of the times in which they lived.
Deborah is a patron of ideas21 and frequently lectures on Ingenious Women.
In July 2011, the paper Innovating Women: Illuminating Achievement and Success, which Deborah co-authored with Professor Pooran Wynarczyk (Business School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), was presented at the Triple Helix IX International Conference, Stanford University, USA.
Deborah's paper Utopia - Clara Louisa Wells was presented at the Alternative Worlds Series at the IGRS, University of London, in May 2011. Clara Louisa Wells is one of her Ingenious Women who spent over 40 years travelling across Europe devising schemes and petitioning governments in her hope of improving society.
Deborah features in the article Engineering's most ingenious women, by Christine Evans-Pughe, published in E&T - Engineering and Technology Magazine, 16 May 2011. Click here to view it.
In 2009 Deborah and Sylvia Katz jointly edited an edition of Plastiquarian which looked at how plastics have influenced women's lives both as innovators and consumers.
The Victorians valued exercise. This bed, devised by Sarah Guppy, includes an exercise bar suspended from the bedframe and drawers which convert into steps.
Mary Anderson's patent diagram for the windscreen wiper she invented in 1903.