Progressive Era and Inventors

To make sure women had full equal rights

Making sure women had access to early reforms such as birth control

To fight for the right of women to have the right to vote

Fighting for the right to women to have equal rights in the military

Garret Morgan

Elijah McCoy

Sarah Goode

John Burr

Thomas Edison

Lewis Howard Latimer

Alexander Graham Bell

Lewis Howard Latimer

a curving ironing board

a lubricator cup for steam engines

a unique shampoo for hairloss

the first foldaway bed

to encourage the U.S. government to build a canal in Panama.

to bring tourists to the luxury hotels he built along the Florida Coast.

to create a refuge for people immigrating to the U.S. from Latin America.

to build a "dream town" with the money he made from his partnership with John. D. Rockefeller