Women Who Made Tremors in History

5 POINT

Women who create tremors...That history almost dropped

1. Enheduanna, the world's first writer:

Back 4,300 years ago, she was a Sumerian princess and priestess who was the "first human being in history" to sign their own writing works. Before that, every writing was anonymous. She was the beginning of a writer identity that the world must remember.

Reference Source: British Museum - Enheduanna: The world's first known author

2. The Night Witches:

Soviet women pilots in World War II who used old wooden planes to drop Nazi bombs at night in "engine-out" for complete silence, flew in negative temperatures without parachutes and accomplished more than 30,000 missions.

Reference Source: History.com - The Female Soviet Pilots Who Dogfought the Nazis

3. Hedy Lamarr, the movie star who invented Wi-Fi:

Besides being a famous Hollywood star, she was the inventor who invented the "Frequency Hopping" system to prevent wiretapping of secret codes during the war, which became the cornerstone of the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies we use today.

Reference Source: Scientific American - Hedy Lamarr: The Incredible Mind behind Secure Wireless Communication

4. Lise Meitner, the mother of nuclear fission:

She was the first to explain the nuclear Fission, but was overlooked by the Nobel Prize, where her male colleagues won the prize alone. Einstein hailed her as "Madame Curie of Germany."

Reference Source: Washington Post - Lise Meitner: The scientist who should have won a Nobel

5.Sybil Ludington, the heroine that history forgot:

At just 16, she galloped through the rain at night for over 64 km (twice as far as Paul Revere) to alert the American army of the British invasion; despite her great heroism, her name is not mentioned much in conventional textbooks.

Reference Source: National Women's History Museum - Sybil Ludington

"Strength...Not measured at the loudest sound, but at the actions that changed the world forever. "

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