About this episode

This episode explores the life and achievements of Beulah Louise Henry, a notable inventor known as Lady Edison.

Beulah was such a prolific inventor in the early 20th century that the press nicknamed her Lady Edison. She was an outlier as an unmarried woman who got her foot in the door as an inventor by pounding the pavement in 1920s New York.

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