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SPEAKER_01: and this is Encyclopedia Womanica. Today we're talking about a woman who made a lasting impact on the breakfast plate, Cybilla Wrighton Masters. Cybilla Wrighton Masters was the first person in the American colonies to be given an English patent. She's also famous for inventing a breakfast food very popular in the South, grits. You heard that right. The invention of the prized Southern breakfast food traces back to an innovative woman in the 17th century.
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SPEAKER_01: Not much is known of Cybilla's early life, but it's believed that she was born around 1676 to Quaker parents. About 11 years later, Cybilla, her six sisters and their parents emigrated from Bermuda to Burlington Township in New Jersey. Cybilla Wrighton first showed up in the colonial records in 1692 when she testified as a witness for her father in the New Jersey courts. Sometime between 1693 and 1696, Cybilla married Thomas Masters, who was a prosperous Quaker merchant who owned land in Pennsylvania. They then had four children. On June 24th, 1712, Cybilla left her family and headed to London to pursue patents for her invention ideas. Just over three years later, on November 25th, 1715, the patent was granted by King George and her husband's name for the process of quote, cleaning and curling the Indian corn growing in the several colonies of America. The patent was in her husband's name because at that point, women weren't allowed to have their own patents. Major shout out to Cybilla's husband, who made sure to give credit where credit was due. Thomas Masters stated in the patent submission that the invention was Cybilla's idea. Had he not included that, her impact may have been lost to history, just as many others probably were before and after her. When the patent was issued, King George I stated publicly that the idea came from Cybilla. Cybilla's new method for curling and preparation of cornmeal used a stamping process instead of the traditionally used grinding. The machine she invented consisted of a long wooden cylinder with projections on each side, causing a series of heavy pestles to drop onto mortars filled with corn kernels. The process allowed for corn to be turned into many different food and cloth products. The invention was powered by horses or water wheels, and it produced a product Cybilla called Tuscarora rice, which was falsely advertised and sold as a cure for tuberculosis, though there was no medical basis for that claim. The product didn't catch on in England, but it became a staple of the Southeastern diet and is today known as grits. But Cybilla wasn't quite done yet. She received her second patent, again under her husband's name, for a method of weaving straw and palmetto leaves into hats and bonnets, as well as baskets, matting, and furniture coverings. She opened a successful shop selling those products in London. She returned home to Pennsylvania on May 25th, 1716 and died four years later. Cybilla Wrighton Masters was an incredible inventor and pioneer. She surpassed the norms of the day to see her ideas through and changed the breakfast plate forever. We're taking a break for the weekend, but we'll be back on Monday with the story of another pioneer. We'll be heading east to talk about the one and only Murasaki Shikibu. Special thanks to my sister, Liz Kaplan, the incredible researcher behind this collection of women. Have a great weekend and we'll talk to you on Monday.
SPEAKER_08: I got to have my grits in the morning. Got to have my grits in the evening. I got to have my grits when I'm on a trip. Got to have my grits anytime now. I got to have them. Love them, get the way, mama. Grits can make it through the day. Do you eat grits? Hell yeah, I eat grits.
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