Nobody, the computer was invented by men. However many early programmers were women as the male mathematicians and scientists often felt it was beneath them to do what they felt was a tedious secretarial type job.
Opha Mae Johnson is officially credited as the first woman Marine.
She was the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the US mainland.
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was the first American woman to write a symphony.
The first woman, was Eve. She was created by God from taking a rib from Adam and creating him a mate.
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
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Linda Richards is the first woman credited with bringing nursing to the USA. She was trained in England by Florence Nightingale who is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing practices, standards and techniques.
The first woman to receive a PhD in computer science in America was Barbara Liskov.
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Janice Brown is credited with the first long-distance solar-powered flight. In 1980 she flew an experimental craft six miles. Her craft was named the Solar Challenger.
Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (1913 - 1985) was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, educator, and pioneer in computer science. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States.
The first person historically credited with inventing perfume is a woman named Tapputi, a chemist and perfumer from Mesopotamia around 1200 BC. She is considered one of the earliest recorded chemists and is credited with being the first to distill essential oils from flowers and plants to create fragrant perfumes.