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Alice Parker is one of my favorite female engineers. Relatively little is known about Alice Parker’s life, not even the year she died is known for sure. She was an African American inventor who became famous for her patent for creating a central heating system that used natural gas. Using natural gas to power a heating furnace was a very futuristic idea in the 1920s, which conserved significant amounts of energy and eventually became the heating systems that are in most modern homes. Go Alice! Before Parker came up with the idea, wood and coal were used to power heating systems, which were rudimentary when compared to Parker’s design

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