domingo, 17 de febrero de 2019

Sarah Mather - Underwater periscope

SARAH MATHER

Itś considerated that Sarah Mather was born in Brooklyn , New York in 1796 but the biographical data of this woman are few. 
According to the Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science , Sarah got married and had one daugther, no more data is known.

She invented the aquascope in 1845, it is consisted of a tube with a lamp attached to one end of it, that can be sunk into the water to illuminate the objects with it.
This invention allows to visualize objects underwater, but with its 
later editions, the aquascope calculates the distances between     
objects, its size and therefore it has been added to the submarines of United States' armies.
But also the soldies on earth use the periscopes to keep them hidden in the trenches and attack their ennemies with surprise.
But Sarah thought her object would be used to see in water, avoid objects, fish or dogde rocks.

Later, she included a lamp to improve the display of the objects.
She could survive all her life with her invention.
However, until the time of his death on June 21, 1868, women were
 not accepted in the repair work of submarines.






Sources:

https://www.kienyke.com/kien-fue/sarah-mather-inventora-de-periscopio

By Lucía Chen and Inés Moreno














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