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Amye Everard Ball was the first woman in England to be granted a patent. Her patent for tincture of saffron was registered in 1637, merely 76 years after Elizabeth I had awarded the first patent. The original patent registration is held at the British Library.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Jaffe, Deborah (2003). Ingenious Women. Sutton Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0750930314.
  2. ^ Evans-Pugh, Christine. "Engineering's most ingenious women (16 May 2011)". www.eandt.theiet.org. Retrieved July 21, 2016.