Beulah Louise Henry was a famous engineer who had invented a total of 110 inventions. Beulah has several inventions in which she was recognized for. She was known as the “Lady Edison”. Her first invention she is known for was the vacuum ice cream freezer which was invented in 1912. Followed by the “Dolly Dip” which was a soap filled sponge for children. The “Miss Illusion” was a doll that can change the color of her eyes and close them. The “Protograph” which was a typewriter that made 4 copies of it. The hair curler for ladies to curl their hair. She was also recognized by inventing the Bobbinfree sewing machine in 1940. Beulah Louise Henry was born on February 11, 1887 in North Carolina. She went to North Carolina
Presbyterian College and…show more content… Then she went to work in the Nicolas Machine Work and in the International Doll Company.
She got recognized with 49 patents but she had around 110 inventions that are known to be hers. She would live in the hotels of New York. She was in several different scientific organizations and was never married anyone. She died in 1973 at the age of 86 but her legacy lives on. One major piece of work Beulah invented was the Vacuum Ice Cream Freezer which she invented in
1912. She achieved it by focusing on the project while she was attending college. It was her first invention she had invented. She started making parts of her inventions by using parts of “soap, tape, hairpins, buttons, and rocks.” This inventions is important to people because without this invention our ice creams would have melted really quick. Our ice creams wouldn’t have even lasted that long even in a regular freezer. She took a step forwards to modernizing the way people would store their ice cream. Another major piece of work that Beulah had invented was the Bobbin free sewing machine in 1940.
She achieved this invention without using the bobbin for the sewing machine. She kept on trying and would look at her mistakes and work on how to see what will work better. This was an
