#OTD 1 Jan 1940 1st 8 women pilots joined #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary. Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona Friedlander, Rosemary Rees, Marion Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather, Gabrielle Patterson & Winifred Crossley Fair flew Tiger Moths out of Hatfield. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tra...

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Marie Van Brittan Brown, US nurse & her husband Albert L. Brown, electronics technician, invented an audio-visual home security system ("Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance") in 1966. Patent granted 3 years later in 1969. b. #OTD 31 Dec 1928 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_V...

Marie Van Brittan Brown, US nurse & her husband Albert L. Brown, electronics technician, invented an audio-visual home security system ("Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance") in 1966. Patent granted 3 years later in 1969. b. #OTD 31 Dec 1928 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_V...

Yvonne Brill. Canadian-US rocket & jet propulsion engineer. Invented fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit. Part of many national space programs in US including @ NASA & International Maritime Satellite Organization. b. #OTD 30 Dec 1924 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_...

Blanche Thornycroft #navalarchitect worked alongside father model testing ship designs, recording & calculating all test data in monographed note books. 1919 1 of 1st 3 women admitted Royal Institution of Naval Architects @wes1919.bsky.social memb d. #OTD 30 Dec 1950 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche...

Marie Luhring 1st US woman truck designer & woman member of Soc of Automotive Engineers. Studied architecture & mech drawing @cooperunion.bsky.social 1920s mech engineer & truck designer @ Mack Trucks designed parts for trucks, buses & engines. d. #OTD 29 Dec 1939 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L...

75 countries, 6 continents, ~5 years #OTD in 1922, 16-year-old Aloha Wanderwell (nee Idris Galcia) began her record-setting journey driving around the world in a 1918 Ford Model T as part of the Wanderwell Expedition. #travel #adventure #firsts www.alohawanderwell.com/biography/

Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on #BSA motorcycle which they promoted with dog Poncho. 1928 wrote Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" Competed in trials events Nancy won gold medal @ Brooklands Recetrack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_a...

Marie Luhring 1st US woman truck designer & woman member of Soc of Automotive Engineers. Studied architecture & mech drawing @cooperunion.bsky.social 1920s mech engineer & truck designer @ Mack Trucks designed parts for trucks, buses & engines. d. #OTD 29 Dec 1939 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L...

Which is why we remember the sacrifice of health and life by the laying of yellow wreaths at war memorials. The British Legion Poppy Factories are now making such wreaths (to order).

Munitions worker very carefully and very gently fills a shell. From clip Reel 8 of IWM 580, released #OTD Dec 29 1915. Note the powder in air, TNT poisoning caused skin to turn yellow and was fatal in about 100 cases. Link to partial list of victims below en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on #BSA motorcycle which they promoted with dog Poncho. 1928 wrote Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" Competed in trials events Nancy won gold medal @ Brooklands Recetrack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_a...

OTD in 1975 New legislation came in to force giving women the right to equal pay and status in the workplace in the UK coming into force in 1975 after being passed in 1970. I started work in 1969 aged 16 so spent 6 years automatically earning less than the boy next to me #womenshistory

Women Who Meant Business is a website choc full of stories of early C20th women who broke the mould, including lots of #WomenInEngineering. This article on Medals & Monuments covers some of the opportunities, losses & rewards brought for some women by #WWI womenwhomeantbusiness.com/2021/11/11/m...

Giorgina Madìa #Italian physicist, electrical communications engineer. Professor @ Università degli studi di Napoli, @ nautical institutes & Uni of Bari. #WWII in Ita Resistance. Built/operated radio station sending info on German troop movements. b .#OTD 27 Dec 1904 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgin...

Hijab Imtiaz Ali (1908–1999) Pakistani pilot, writer, editor, diarist. Trained @ Lahore Flying Club & earned pilot license in 1936. 1939 International Women’s News reported Hijab had become 1st Muslim woman in British Empire to obtain an ‘A’ license as an air pilot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab_I...

Jean Bartik US computer programmer, 1 of 1stl 6 programmers of ENIAC computer @ Uni of Pennsylvania. Devt & codified many of fundamentals of programming while working on ENIAC, Worked on BINAC & UNIVAC. Drupal's default theme Bartik named for her b. #OTD 27 Dec 1924 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ba...

Giorgina Madìa #Italian physicist, electrical communications engineer. Professor @ Università degli studi di Napoli, @ nautical institutes & Uni of Bari. #WWII in Ita Resistance. Built/operated radio station sending info on German troop movements. b .#OTD 27 Dec 1904 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgin...

Mary Engle Pennington US bacteriological chemist & refrigeration engineer. 1907 chief of Food Research Laboratory, estab'd to enforce 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Developed standards for processing chickens, then moved into household refrigeration. b. #OTD 27 Dec 1952 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_En...

Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić Yugoslav #architect Born in Serbia, in 1913 1st woman to earn #engineering degree in Imperial Germany @ TU Darmstadt Designed schools, colleges cultural centre, spa baths & hospital in #Serbia & Bosnia-Herzegovina d. #OTD 27 Dec 1966 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovanka...

In 1914 Beatrice Blore Browne became 1st woman to drive a car (a 10 horse power Singer Ten) up #GreatOrme #Llandudno #NorthWales (with gradient of 1 in 3). She was 6 months pregnant at the time. Her gravestone commemorates the feat. b. #OTD 26 Dec 1886 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...

Sybil Lupp #NewZealand mechanic, motor-racing driver, garage proprietor, motor vehicle dealer, "the Jaguar Lady". Age 4, smashed dolls’ tea-set as wanted present with ‘wheels & things’. Broke NZ speed records 1940/50, 1st in MGs, then Jaguar cars d. #OTD 26 Dec 1994 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_L...

1947 Marjorie Bell was Chief Inspector of Factories in what was then Mandatory Palestine, overseeing canning in Jaffa & Dead Sea potash, olive oil, soap works & oil refineries @ Haifa with bullets whizzing overhead. Womens Eng Soc President 1956-7 b #OTD 26 Dec 1906 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjori...

In 1914 Beatrice Blore Browne became 1st woman to drive a car (a 10 horse power Singer Ten) up #GreatOrme #Llandudno #NorthWales (with gradient of 1 in 3). She was 6 months pregnant at the time. Her gravestone commemorates the feat. b. #OTD 26 Dec 1886 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...

London Ladies Motorcycle Club's magazine 1930 #Christmas issue. Club was founded 1927, members list reads like Who's Who of early women #motorcyclists Fascinating IET Library & Archive blog 🏍 bit.ly/2OWupwN #WomensHistory #womeninSTEM #MerryChristmas #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Elze van den Ban #Dutch urban planner chief engineer of Rijkswaterstaat (Dept of Public Works) @ Zuiderzee Works. Introduced curvatures rather than straight lines into urban planning process. 1st woman from Netherlands to graduate as civil engineer in Delft. d. #OTD 25 Dec 1973 bit.ly/3WYS1Vu

#Christmas card sent from on board #ship TSS Anchises in 1922 by Victoria Drummond; ship #engineer #FirstWoman #marine engineer in UK 1st woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. Card in @wes1919.bsky.social archive held @ IET Library & Archive en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori... #MerryChristmas

Mona Friedlander UK pilot 1 of "1st 8" founding pilots of women's section of Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA under command of Pauline Gower. Earned licence 1936 @ Brooklands Flying Club. #WWII specialised in night flying & Army Cooperation flying. d. #OTD 24 Dec 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Fr...

Eveline Gottzein E German aerospace engineer. 1957 escaped to W Germany, Specialised in orbital control of satellites. Scientific advisor to Airbus. Multiple patents. 1993 only woman awarded Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 4 technical sciences in Germany. d. #OTD 24 Dec 2023 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eveline...

Evelyn Cridlan #WWI First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ambulance driver 1918 awarded Military Medal for "most efficient service in conveying the wounded to hospital during a bombing raid". Early #WES member 1st woman elected to Military Medalist's League. b. #OTD 24 Dec 1889 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_...

Vera Sandberg #Swedish #engineer. 1914 only woman among 500 male students at Chalmers University of Technology, graduating 1917 as #Sweden's 1st female engineer. Statue erected 2019, 2 streets & hot air balloon named after her. d. #OTD 24 Dec 1979 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Sa... #WomenInSTEM

106 yrs ago Women's Engineering Society @wes1919.bsky.social becama fully incorporated organisation #OTD 24 Dec 1919. Founders Eleanor Shelley-Rolls; Rachel Parsons; Katharine Parsons Janetta Mary Ornsby; Margaret D Rowbotham; Margaret Moir & Laura Annie Willson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...

106 yrs ago Women's Engineering Society @wes1919.bsky.social becama fully incorporated organisation #OTD 24 Dec 1919. Founders Eleanor Shelley-Rolls; Rachel Parsons; Katharine Parsons Janetta Mary Ornsby; Margaret D Rowbotham; Margaret Moir & Laura Annie Willson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...

Muriel Barker (Mrs Glauert) #mathematician & #aerodynamicist @ Royal Aircraft Establishment #Farnborough. Studied @newnhamcollege.bsky.social then worked on velocity, made significant contributions to early advances in #aerodynamics #WomenInSTEM d. #OTD 23 Dec 1949 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...

Dorothy Spicer UK aviatrix, 1st woman to gain advanced qualification in #aeronauticalengineering. Amy Johnson teased her @wes1919.bsky.social event "amidst much laughter...to admit or deny...that she held every licence that it was possible to hold" d #OTD 23 Dec 1946 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Cleone Benest aka C Griff #motorist #metallurgist. 1 of 1st women #engineers to pass mechanical exams of City & Guilds of London Institute & The RAC. Published on engineering & establisd own firm managed & run by women @wes1919.bsky.social member. d. #OTD 23 Dec 1963 bit.ly/3uzpaYs

Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 became UK law #OTD 23 Dec 1919. "A person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from exercise of any public function...holding any civil or judicial office..carrying on any civil profession..or admission to any society" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Dis...

Melli Beese #aviator 1st woman to earn German flying license in 1911. Competed successfully in air competitions, ran flying school. Designed Melli Beese-Taube monoplane & sea plane w French husband, interned #WWI by Germany as enemy . d.#OTD 22 Dec 1925 bit.ly/3BZe7vQ

Ada Rogato #aviator 1st S American woman to earn glider pilot's license, 1st #Brazilian woman to earn paratrooper certification & fly across all 3 America. Broke world record for longest solo flight & Brazilian record for parachute jumps. b. #OTD 22 Dec 1910 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Rog...

The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...

Olwen Wooster telecomms engineer. #WWII cypher officer in Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force. 1954 ground comms 4 TransAustralia Airlines. 1964 ran computing systems connecting 300 gambling shops w' racecourses. Member US Soc of Women Engineers & #Soroptimists b. #OTD 22 Dec 1917 bit.ly/31IRG1H

Gertrude Bacon UK aeronautical pioneer. Achieved number of "1sts" for women in aeronautics & contributed in areas of astronomy & botany. Popularised aeronautics through her writing promoted commercial & popular flying as fields for women. d. #OTD 22 Dec 1949 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud...

Georgina Kermode #suffragette #metallurgist #engineer #entrepreneur Invented vending machine for postage stamps detected counterfeit coins. Post Office bought machines & installed 1st @ Houses of Parliament. Elected 1st woman memb @iom3.bsky.social #OTD 21 Dec 1916 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...

1926 Mary Olga Soroka 1st woman awarded degree in Civil Engineering @ MIT. Joined @wes1919.bsky.social after reading The Woman Engineer journal @ MIT library 1 of 1st women to join American Society of Civil Engineers in 1927. 30 year career as air con & hydraulics #engineer b. #OTD 21 Dec 1904

Geneviève Meurgues French #conservator #chemicalengineer, natural history specimen conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of Marseille Roman boat & creation of Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, part of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. d. 21 Dec 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%...

1920s Emily Dunn ran quarry in #Yorkshire ”I'm my own engineer & technical adviser". Invented "Heath Robinson attempts @ washing plants” for business success. Found human skeletons & 160 #Pleistocene fossils in gravel gave 2 Hull Museum. d #OTD 20 Dec 1967 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...

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Edna Mosley 1 of 1st UK woman professional architects, designed labour-saving interiors. "typical woman #architect" 1933 refurbed Electrical Association for Women's HQ w' electrical wiring behind glass panels for use in teaching cutting edge tech. b. #OTD 20 Dec 1899 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Mo...