PLAY PODCASTS
The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test

The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test

Science + graphic design. The invention of the home pregnancy test.

Transistor

February 29, 201611m 38s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dts.podtrac.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

We love a good backstory to a scientific invention that is ubiquitous today. Meet the women who got pregnancy tests out of labs and into homes.

In the episode:

Audrey Peattie

Margaret Crane

Gloria Allen

Special thanks to Dr. Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (University of Cambridge), whose research provided the basis for this piece.

This episode was brought to us by the podcast Mother, produced by Amy Gastelum and Anne Noyes Saini.