“I really wanted the product to happen. That’s the only way it was going to go forward,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Crane largely kept her role private for decades, assuming few people would believe that a graphic designer\u2014not a chemist or physician\u2014had invented the first home pregnancy test.<\/p>\n
That changed after she read a 2012 New York Times article about pregnancy tests that omitted her contribution. She still had her original prototype tucked away in a shoebox, eventually auctioning it to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where it helped bring renewed attention to her story.<\/p>\n
A follow-up New York Times feature inspired playwright Jennifer Blackmer to write \u201cPredictor,\u201d which traces Crane’s determination to bring women a revolutionary new tool despite corporate resistance and cultural expectations.<\/p>\n
The play blends comedy, surrealism and history while exploring themes of bodily autonomy and women’s agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I really wanted the product to happen. That’s the only way it was going to go forward,\u201d she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-339628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}