Beatrice Kenner&rsquo;s inventions were focused largely on making life easier and less annoying for herself and the people around her, including period products. Mildred Smith&rsquo;s invention was about family, and it grew from her disability after she developed multiple sclerosis. Research: <ul> <li>&ldquo;Deaths.&rdquo; Evening Star. 11/27/1956. https://www.newspapers.com/image/869672410/</li> <li>&ldquo;Mildred E. Smith.&rdquo; Obituary. Washington Post. 8/19/1993. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/08/19/n-hugh-mcdiarmid-dies-at-86/beab0fdf-9aec-4ac1-bd0a-cfcef223f1fa/</li> <li>Byram, W.F. and R.P. Phronebarger. &ldquo;Current Supply System for Electric Railways.&rdquo; U.S. Patent 1,134,871. 4/6/1915.</li> <li>Coren, Ashleigh, et al. &ldquo;The Many Inventions of Beatrice Kenner.&rdquo; Side Door. Smithsonian Institution. 4/6/2022. https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/many-inventions-beatrice-kenner</li> <li>Davidson, S.N. &ldquo;Pants Presser.&rdquo; U.S. Patent 1,088,329.</li> <li>Hambrick, Arlene. &ldquo;Biographies of Black Female Scientists and Inventors: An Interdisciplinary Middle School Curriculum Guide. &lsquo;What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?&rsquo;&rdquo; Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts. Doctor of Education Dissertation. 1993. DOI: 10.7275/14756666</li> <li>Hodal, Kate. &ldquo;Cloth, cow dung, cups: how the world's women manage their periods.&rdquo; The Guardian. 3/14/2019. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/13/cloth-cow-dung-cups-how-the-worlds-women-manage-their-periods</li> <li>Jeffrey, Laura S. &ldquo;Amazing American Inventors of the 20th Century.&rdquo; Enslow Publishers, Inc.. 1996, 2013.</li> <li>Kenner, Mary Beatrice. &ldquo;Busch Traffic.&rdquo; Daily Press. 11/12/1984. https://www.newspapers.com/image/234268212/</li> <li>Kijowska, Wiktoria. &ldquo;Sanitary suspenders to Mooncups: a brief history of menstrual products.&rdquo; Victoria and Albert Museum. https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-brief-history-of-menstrual-products</li> <li>King, Helen. &ldquo;From rags and pads to the sanitary apron: a brief history of period products.&rdquo; The Conversation. 4/25/2023. https://theconversation.com/from-rags-and-pads-to-the-sanitary-apron-a-brief-history-of-period-products-203451</li> <li>O&rsquo;Sullivan, Joan. &ldquo;Disease Victim Creates Game.&rdquo; The Orange Leader. 10/8/1982. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1008083420/</li> <li>Ravey, Julia and Dr. Ella Hubber. &ldquo;Unstoppable: Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner.&rdquo; Unstoppable. BBC. 6/17/2024. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5rmq</li> <li>Sluby, Patricia Carter. &ldquo;African American Brilliance.&rdquo; Tar heel junior historian [2006 : fall, v.46 : no.1]. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/tar-heel-junior-historian-2006-fall-v.46-no.1/3700440?item=5369779</li> <li>Smith, Mildred E. &ldquo;Family Relationships Card Game.&rdquo; U.S. Patent 4,230,321. 10/28/1980. https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/downloadPdf/4230321</li> <li>Tsjeng, Zing. &ldquo;Forgotten Women: The Scientists.&rdquo; Cassell Illustrated. 2018.</li> <li>Tsjeng, Zing. &ldquo;The Forgotten Black Woman Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads.&rdquo; Vice. 3/8/2018. https://www.vice.com/en/article/mary-beatrice-davidson-kenner-sanitary-belt/</li> <li>Washington Afro American. &ldquo;Jabbo Kenner Leads Boys to Clean Life.&rdquo; 11/15/1947. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1042304374/</li> <li>Washington Daily News. &ldquo;Mrs. Kenner Is In Clover.&rdquo; 6/2/1958. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1042178951/</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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