Mary Brush (fl. 1815) of Davenport, Iowa,[1] was an American inventor and one of the first American women to be granted a patent by the U.S. patent office.[2] Her patent, granted on 21 July 1815, was for a corset.[3] It improved on the design and was meant to "preserve the shape of the womanly figure."[4] The Cincinnati Enquirer, in 1908, identified her as the second American woman to be granted a patent.[5]

References

  1. "Women Inventors". The Times-Democrat. 24 May 1908. Retrieved 19 December 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Brush, Mary". 4000 Years of Women in Science. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  3. "Her Inventive Genius". Omaha Daily Bee. 16 June 1895. Retrieved 19 December 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Useful Inventions". The Citizen. 11 August 1909. Retrieved 19 December 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "The First Patent". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1 November 1908. Retrieved 19 December 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  • Serial Set Vol. No. 207, Report H. Doc. 50 of 13 January 1831 at GenealogyBank.


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