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QUOTATION:If necessity is the mother of invention, then resourcefulness is the father.
ATTRIBUTION:Beulah Louise Henry, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 13, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992).

Said in 1962; Henry had invented a type of umbrella.
 
 
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