Caption: Graphic designer Meg Crane in 1965, Credit: Anna Kaufman
Image by: Anna Kaufman 
Graphic designer Meg Crane in 1965 

The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test

From: PRX
Series: Transistor
Length: 11:38

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.

Meg_crane_1965_annakaufman_small 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.

Piece Description

Broadcast History

This episode was originally produced by Anne Noyes Saini and Amy Gastelum in late 2015 for PRX's open call STEM Story Project. Stations can get it without the Transistor wrapper here.

Additional Credits

This episode was produced by Anne Noyes Saini and Amy Gastelum of the podcast Mother, with editing by Andrea Mustain. It was hosted for Transistor by Genevieve Sponsler, and mixed for Transistor by Josh Swartz.

Related Website

https://transistor.prx.org/2016/02/the-invention-of-the-home-pregnancy-test/