{"id":12931,"date":"2025-03-14T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/overlooked-no-more-beulah-henry-inventor-with-an-endless-imagination\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:01:16","slug":"overlooked-no-more-beulah-henry-inventor-with-an-endless-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/overlooked-no-more-beulah-henry-inventor-with-an-endless-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This article is part of <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/spotlight\/overlooked\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Overlooked<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From the time Beulah Henry was a child in the late 19th century, she dreamed of ways to make life easier. That impulse would eventually drive her to secure dozens of patents and would earn her a nickname: Lady Edison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When she died in the early 1970s, she held far more patents than any other woman, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and in 2006 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her contributions to technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI invent because I cannot help it,\u201d she often said. \u201cNew things just thrust themselves upon me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her first prototype, when she was 9, was for a mechanism that would allow a man to tip his hat to a passerby while simultaneously holding a newspaper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The visions kept coming. In 1912, while she was in college, she received her first patent (No. 1,037,762) for an ice-cream maker that functioned with minimal ice, something that was in short supply at the time. It was not a commercial success, but that did not stop her from dreaming up other innovations.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Patent No. 1,037,762<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-tosae5 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5fcbfb5b\">\u2018Ice Cream Freezer\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anything and everything seemed to interest her: toys, typewriters, sewing machines, coffee pots, hair curlers, can openers, mailing envelopes. Her achievements were all the more remarkable because she had no knowledge of mechanics and lacked the technical vocabulary to describe what she was trying to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Working out of a series of hotel suites \u2014 one reporter who visited described what he saw as resembling a boudoir more than a place of business \u2014 she hired model makers, draftsmen and patent lawyers to realize her visions. Sometimes she sold her ideas to manufacturers who then applied for their own patents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Henry could see the finished product in her head, she said, \u201cas clearly as you see a book or a picture or a flower held up before you.\u201d Her challenge was to communicate that vision clearly enough so that others could bring it to reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI say to the engineers, build me such and such, and they say to me, \u2018Miss Henry, it couldn\u2019t possibly work,\u2019\u201d she told The Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel in 1965. \u201cAnd I say to them, \u2018I don\u2019t know if it will work but I\u2019m looking at it,\u2019 and so they build it and it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beulah Louise Henry was born on Sept. 28, 1887, in Raleigh, N.C. Her father, Walter R. Henry, was an art connoisseur and collector who was active in local Democratic politics. Her mother, Beulah (Williamson) Henry, was an artist. Her brother, Peyton, was a songwriter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Henry claimed to be descended from Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, and from the Revolutionary War hero Patrick Henry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In interviews, she said her ability to invent may have been influenced by a neurological condition called synesthesia, in which unrelated senses are linked \u2014 certain sounds or tastes may call to mind particular colors, for example. \u201cI have it one million percent,\u201d she would say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After graduating from Elizabeth College, in Charlotte, N.C., she moved with her mother to New York City to pursue her inventing career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One idea involved a parasol with snap-on covers in various colors that could be changed to match a woman\u2019s outfit. It wasn\u2019t an easy sell.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">Patent Nos. 1,492,725 and 1,593,494<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-tosae5 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6593822d\">\u2018Parasol\u2019 and \u2018Runner Shield Attachment\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One after another, the experts told her, \u201cIt can\u2019t be done,\u201d she was quoted as saying in The Raleigh News and Observer in 1923. \u201cBut I knew it could be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The final result, described in the press as \u201ca miracle for the smart milady,\u201d was so popular that she established the Henry Umbrella and Parasol Company to make and market her creation. Lord &amp; Taylor displayed the parasols in its windows, and they sold by the thousands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For a while, Henry put her energy into reinventing children\u2019s toys, primarily dolls. She used springs and tubes to make them kick, blink and cry; she put a radio inside one. Her most popular creation was the Miss Illusion Doll, with eyes that changed color to match its wigs. She also created a plush toy cow called Milka-Moo, which dispensed milk and had a secret compartment for a bar of soap.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later, she turned to typewriters. Of the 10 or so related patents she received, the most impressive was perhaps the \u201cprotograph\u201d (No. 1,874,749), an attachment that produced multiple copies of a document without carbon paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She would \u201cjust look at something,\u201d Henry <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/learning-and-resources\/journeys-innovation\/historical-stories\/theres-better-way-doing\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, \u201cand think, \u2018There\u2019s a better way of doing that,\u2019 and the idea comes to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1941, she took a long look at sewing machines and invented the Double Chain Stitch Sewing Machine (No. 2,230,896), which functioned without the bobbins that seamstresses had to periodically stop and change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She also found a way to make cooking easier. For years, she said, \u201cthe percolator on the coffee pot said to me, \u2018Do something with me,\u2019 but I didn\u2019t know what. And then one day when I was basting a roast, I knew what I had to do with that percolator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She went on: \u201cI worked out a device that percolates the juice in a roaster and bastes the meat continuously by itself.\u201d She received the patent for it in 1962.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reporters portrayed her in effusive terms: She was \u201ca superb, commanding figure,\u201d one noted; \u201cstylishly gowned,\u201d another said \u2014 \u201cdelightfully, almost theatrically feminine\u201d and \u201cmore like an opera star than a studious scientific person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those who visited her at work in her hotel room often detected a whiff of incense and mentioned her pink lampshades or the large telescope she placed near a window so that she could gaze at the night sky. Then there were the pets: At various times she kept small turtles, a parakeet, a tropical oriole, several doves and cockatiels, and a cat named Chickadee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Henry was active in the American Museum of Natural History, the National Audubon Society, the New York Women\u2019s League for Animals and the New York Microscopical Society, among other organizations. She never married.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her far-flung inspirations were a mystery to her mother, who lived with her much of the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what to make of her,\u201d her mother said in 1923. \u201cShe gets up at night and prowls around making experiments with the electric lights and the water system, or hunting for sheets of brown paper to draw on or cut up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Henry offered a mystical explanation for her compulsion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI have come to believe in spirit control,\u201d she told The News Tribune, in Tacoma, Wash., in 1939. \u201cAnd 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