"Crane slid her prototype onto a table holding a number of others, and retreated to the radiator. She was validated when one of the ad men the company hired picked hers out of the lineup and complimented it.

'This is the one we’re using, right?' he asked her boss. 'Oh no, that’s just something Meg did for talking purposes,' he replied. That line, especially, is burned into her memory."

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The incredible true story of the at-home pregnancy test

For decades, its inventor has watched others take credit. That’s starting to change

^{Katherine Laidlaw (The Hustle)}