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The first home pregnancy test

25/03/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The first home pregnancy test

A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s

A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s - but her bosses didn't like it at first.

A female designer working for an American pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s, but her bosses didn't like it at first. Margaret Crane has been telling Maria Elena Navas how she had to develop her designs on her own after being told that women couldn't be trusted to use a home testing kit properly.

Photo: Margaret Crane's first home testing kit. Credit: National Museum of American History.

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