User:Alanna the Brave/Timeline of women inventors

Drafting a page of women inventors throughout history. Includes notable women who have invented either a product or a process.

Ancient history

 * 1st century BCE: A woman known only as Fang became the earliest recorded Chinese woman alchemist. She is credited with "the discovery of how to turn mercury into silver" – possibly the chemical process of boiling off mercury in order to extract pure silver residue from ores.
 * 3rd century CE: Cleopatra the Alchemist, an early figure in chemistry and practical alchemy, is credited with inventing the alembic.

18th century

 * 1746: Swedish agronomist Eva Ekeblad develops a new process of using potatoes to make flour and alcohol, which subsequently lessens Sweden's reliance on wheat crops and decreases the risk of famine.

19th century

 * 1832: French marine biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power invents the first glass aquarium, using it to assist in her scientific observations of Argonauta argo.