Ask HN: Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?
Many women published research under pseudonyms in the past, for example Sophie Germain:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain</a><p>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.<p>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: <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Radioactivit%C3%A9-1-Madame-Pierre-Curie/dp/B001SUW80G" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.fr/Radioactivit%C3%A9-1-Madame-Pierre-Cur...</a>).