It should have been in the textbooks and the encyclopedias and the newspaper feature articles that celebrated American innovation.

It should have been in the curriculum that told American children who the inventors of their country were.

It was not, and the reasons it was not are the structural reasons that this article has examined at length: the racial discrimination that prevented commercialization, the gender discrimination that compounded it, the historical selection processes that preserved some stories and discarded others.

The recovery of her name — which this article participates in, as have the books and documentaries and educational programs that have preceded it — is genuine and important work.