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Margaret Crane

April 20, 2016

Interview with Meg Crane

Meg Crane tells the story of how she invented the home pregnancy test.
March 7, 2016 in Modern Worthies

Margaret Crane

Creator of the Home Pregnancy Test

In 1968, the tests to determine whether someone was pregnant were done in labs, and the results sent to a doctor, who would relay it to the patient--a process which could take weeks. Margaret Crane changed that.

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