Margaret Crane

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Margaret "Meg" M. Crane (born 1939) is an American inventor and graphic designer who created the first at home pregnancy test in 1967 while working at Organon Pharmaceuticals in West Orange, New Jersey. She is the listed inventor on US Patent 3,579,306 and 215,7774. There was resistance to marketing pregnancy tests for consumers rather than doctors, and the home pregnancy test did not become available until 1977, except for a market test in Canada in 1972. She was also a juror in the 2004 trial of Martha Stewart for lying to federal investigators during an insider trading investigation.

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