This exhibition takes place in the context of international women's day, 8 March, and is shown before around this topic elsewhere on Campus in the last couple of years .
The idea of bringing all these forgotten, female, inventors under attention came up a few years ago during a brainstorm between Tessa Lieffering from Culture & Events and Vyvy, then a student Technical Medicine. It surprised Vyvy that many people find it difficult to name female inventors. For this exhibition we want to share some very interesting inventions done by women. Many people seem to think that early inventors were naturally men, but many everyday objects were invented by women. Simple things like coffee filter Melitta for example, or less common: the bulletproof vest and the syringe.
