With war, many occupations
Have been affected, where
Many men had led the way.
By a review of 1914, was seen
An increase in applications,
Taken out by women, to patent
Their own new innovations.
Patent agents of Messrs
Hughes and Young -
Of Chancery Lane, London -
Reported 350 applications
By women gaining patents.
These innovators – made up ten
More than the record for 1913,
Across the United Kingdom.
Being seen as remarkable,
Against the fact of a decrease
From equivalent male
Applications - with a loss
In the region of 5000 patent
Requests - all due to the war,
Taking the male innovators.
Innovative ideas by women,
Were likely to prove useful
To both the Navy and Army,
To include sleeping blankets,
Life belts - of an inflatable kind -
An arm sling and a defensive
Idea, in the utilisation of nets.
Requests for patents women
Have made, included numbers
Of twenty for household ideas,
Nursing - as medical number to
Thirty-four, while fifty-four
Centre about ideas of dress.
Randomly is also an appliance,
To preserve form of the chin...
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1914. Women’s Inventions. The Daily
Telegraph, [online] 29 Dec. p.12.
Col.2. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11310995/Daily-Telegraph-December-29-1914.html
[Accessed: 29 December August
2014].
Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 29 December 2014).
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