Google celebrates women

At the beginning of the 1900s in the USA it was very difficult to drive safely when it rained or snowed. To clean the windscreen the driver had to stop driving, get out of the car and manually clean the glass. In 1903 Mary Anderson had the idea of ​​a system capable of cleaning car windows automatically, she invented so the windshield wiper.

In 1950 the researcher Maria Telkes and the architect Eleanor Raymond presented the project of the Dover House, a house completely heated by the sun. The solar house was an ordinary building with metal and glass panels behind the windows, capable of absorbing the sun's energy into storage containers, filled with a sodium salt that ""stored"" the sun's energy. the heat of the sun. &` thanks to this prototype we can exploit solar energy today.

These are just two examples of how many inventions can be attributed to female intellect. The choice of these examples is not random, but reports two very different approaches, the first linked to everyday life and the second, extremely innovative.

Google knows all its users well, but it knows its programmers even better, which is why, on the occasion of 8 March, it has decided to highlight the apps and games developed by women. In fact, on the Play Store it is There is a section with the apps developed by women, their history, biographical notes and curiosities. on female creators.

Google stands out from those in the rest of Silicon Valley for the strong female presence within it, where the female share represents 46 percent of management.