Theora Stephens is an American hairdresser[1] widely credited with a 1980 patent for "a more efficient pressing and curling iron."[2] Another source says Stephens “created the pressing/ curling iron in 1983.“[3]

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  1. ^ "Great African-American Inventors". BET. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History. Victoria Sherrow (ed.). 2006. p. 189. ISBN 0313331456.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "9 Black Female Inventors". Her Campus. University of Albany. Retrieved 8 February 2018.