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The wheel is an uncredited invention that almost all of humanity uses multiple times a day.
stairs also fall into this category.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain
So I'd argue that many past inventions that are credited to men might actually have been achieved by women scientists publishing under their husbands / colleagues / friends name as a pseudonym.
In Paris I once saw an original print of Marie Curie's book on radioactivity, where her name is given as "Mme Pierre Curie". This probably shows how difficult it was even then to get something published under your own name as a woman (Cover and autor info here: https://www.amazon.fr/Radioactivit%C3%A9-1-Madame-Pierre-Cur...).
anonymous 4chan user solving a 25 year old math problem https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anim...
the bible
The wheel is an uncredited invention that almost all of humanity uses multiple times a day.
The DotA "creator" / last maintainer, IceFrog keeps his identity hidden. It did leak because of a Blizzard lawsuit, but people respect it and don't talk about it.
The DotA "creator" / last maintainer, IceFrog keeps his identity hidden. It did leak because of a Blizzard lawsuit, but people respect it and don't talk about it.
It is speculated that icefrog is Bruno.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be more interesting to limit answers to historical times.
Why? The original question makes no mention of this, not to mention that it might be cool to think about a bunch of inventions that have been with us for so long that we entirely take them for granted.