5 Influential Women Who Affected Manufacturing @mfgday #MFGDay23
Old but good list from Maker’s Row highlighting a few important women who played key roles throughout the history of manufacturing. The list includes Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar:
If you’ve ever worn a helmet, skied, or driven on a suspension bridge, then you’ve experienced the work of Stephanie Kwolek, who invented Kevlar. Kwolek was always interested in fibers from a young age. She loved fashion and even created clothes for her dolls. Kwolek got a job at the chemical company DuPont to save money for medical school. However, she instead stayed with the company to research how to turn polymers into synthetic fibers. Instead of polymers with molecules that were random, Kwolek worked with ones that formed rows. She ran the polymers (after some resistance from a factory) through a spinneret, which created a fiber that was as strong as steel.
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