Just want to start this off by saying that this not an attack on any group.
*The paper bag as you know it
Margaret Knight received her patent for*a machine that could produce square-bottomed bags*in 1871,*after a long legal battle with a fellow machinist, Charles Anan, who tried to steal her work*by arguing that such a brilliant invention could not possibly have been invented by a*girl. Also, when Knight was 12 years old, she invented a safety device for cotton mills which is*still used today.
*The ice cream maker
Nancy Johnson*invented the ice cream freezer in 1843, patenting a design which is still used to the current day, even after the advent of electric ice cream makers.
*Beer
Beer historian Jane Peyton claims that ancient Mesopotamian women were the first to develop, sell, and even drink beer. While it may be hard to pin down exactly who, thousands of years ago, "invented" the beer we know and love today, it's safe to say that ancient women all over the world were sure as hell fermenting something.
*The life raft
1882, Maria Beasely
*The dishwasher
was invented by Josephine Cochrane in 1887.
And my favourite:
Monopoly
was*invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904*under the original name The Landlord's Game. (It was a critique of the injustices of unchecked capitalism, making it all the more ironic when her game was completely ripped off by Charles Darrow 30 years later)