Did you know that Lizzie Magie is the true inventor of Monopoly? Well, technically, she invented and patented The Landlord's Game, a board game initially deemed "too complicated" to achieve widespread popularity. Despite this, her creation started spreading across the U.S., with players crafting their own personalized versions of the game.
That is, until someone stepped in, declared, "Hey, I've got a great idea!" and patented what we now know as Monopoly.
Join us as we unravel the drama behind one of the most iconic board games of the last century. Meet Lizzie Magie: feminist, inventor, game designer, actress, writer, and passionate Georgist!

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game#cite_note-17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance_(game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1905-12-17/ed-1/seq-59/#loclr=blogadm
https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2022/09/elizabeth-j-magie/

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Earning both public recognition for her inventions and making "barrel-loads" of money (wink, wink!), Maria E. Beasley was an inventor extraordinaire. With 15 patents to her name and millions of dollars in income, she is best known for her barrel-hooping machine, her revolutionised design of the life raft, and anti-derailment modifications made to trains. How exactly did this 19th-century American engineer such a wide variety of inventions?! Follow us in episode sixteen of The Inventing HerStory Podcast to learn all about Maria's trailblazing career in a male-dominated field, and how her legacy continues to impact modern engineering today.


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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_E._Beasley
https://www.stmarys.sa.edu.au/women-in-stem-maria-beasley.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-champaign-daily-gazette-woman-and-ho/90478469/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-inquirer-she-has-a-barrel-mrs-mari/90480777/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newton-enterprise-a-lady-inventor/90479179/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_E._Beasley#Barrel-hooping_machine
https://intrans.iastate.edu/news/maria-beasley-engineering-dynamo/
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002314379/publication/US245050A?q=pn%3DUS245050
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002326239/publication/US256951A?q=pn%3DUS256951
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002673142/publication/US604513A?q=pn%3DUS604513

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Eva Ekeblad, also known as the "potato pioneer", was (one of) the first female chemists in Sweden. She experimented with using potatoes in many cooking and household applications including making potato bread, potato starch, dying yarn using potato starch, and most notably, liquor distilled from potatoes! During a time when potatoes were new and not yet popular in Sweden (believe it or not), these discoveries made a huge impact. Historians even credit increasing popular use of the potato with preventing famine in Europe! Follow us in episode fifteen of The Inventing HerStory Podcast to learn all about the history of the potato and Eva Ekeblad's use of the potato which contributed to their popularity in Sweden still today!


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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%A4nnvin
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-distill-vodka/
https://popularhistoria.se/vetenskap/eva-ekeblad-gjorde-sprit-av-potatis
https://skbl.se/en/article/EvaEkeblad
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eva-Ekeblad
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=16806


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