They Did That

Not too long ago, before today's high-tech period pads, there were “sanitary belts.” And they used pins to keep pads in place! They were, quite literally, a huge pain. But in the 1930s, a teenage girl from Washington, DC, figured out how to use adhesives instead of pins...the first step in getting us the stick-on pads we have now. She even got the attention of some really big companies...including an offer for a manufacturing deal. So how come we didn’t see this new technology until almost three decades later? On this episode, the story of Beatrice Davidson Kenner, the pad pioneer.

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Alice Guy-Blaché started in film when film was just starting—she was one of the first to tell a story in film, the first to use the close up and was almost certainly the first woman director of all time. As her career grew, she started her own studio and made 1000 films. But would she be able to fight off attempts to sabotage her work and erase her from film history altogether?

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It’s 1914 and chemistry student Alice Ball arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii. She doesn’t know it yet, but her knack for solving problems in the chemistry lab is about to change the lives of thousands of people with leprosy aka Hansen’s Disease. But thanks to just one man’s greed, Alice won’t get credit for her work until long after she’s gone.

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Who built the modern world? The answer to that question might surprise you. (Or maybe not...) There's a long list of global innovators and trailblazers who’ve been erased from history books because of who they were; women, people of color LBGTQ and more. Each week They Did That tells one of these people's stories and how their life’s work has changed our lives for the better. Hosted by Takara Small.

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