Irmgard Flügge-Lotz German-US #mathematician #aerospace #engineer. Pioneer in development of theory of discontinuous automatic control. 1st female engineering professor @stanforduniversity.bsky.social 1st female engineer Fellow of AIAA b. #OTD 16 July 1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irmgard...

34 candidates in Clacton! THREE candidates from the Monster Raving Loonies! I wouldnt want to be on the counting staff: those long papers are going to be an absolute pest to handle. www.tendringdc.gov.uk/news/clacton...

PlanK

Good news - Karen's Bricks & Bones meticulously-made model of the lost Union Corner has been bought by Network Rail, and will be displayed in Glasgow Central Station. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@number10cat.bsky.social Unsurprising but excellent advice for any new PM. I hope the Guardian rework this one for every new PM from now on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For a humorous look at this type of database versus an early computer see this lovely Tracy/Hepburn film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Set

Ray Strachey read maths @Newnham_College took #electricalengineering class @UniofOxford Wrote to aunt "to London next winter for my engineering" encouraged by Hertha Ayrton. Married instead but stayed involved w Society of Women Welders d. #OTD 16 Jul 1940 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Str...

Vera Strodl Dowling #Danish #pilot, only #Scandinavian woman to fly in #WWII UK Air Transport Auxiliary. Wrote name of new plane types flown on flying jacket. Pre war test pilot & air craft inspector, later instructed pilots in #Canada. b #OTD 16 Jul 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_St...

Letitia Chitty structural analytical #engineer analysing stresses of airframes, ships & civil engineering structures. 1st R Aero Society female Fellow & recipient of Telford Medal. @wes1919.bsky.social member worked @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social b #OTD 15 Jul 1897 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia...

@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social HERE is the button!

I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?

Transactional corruption taken to its logical conclusion, IMO.

Sonja Lapajne Oblak #Slovenian architect. 1st Slovenian woman civil engineer graduate at Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia's 1st female urban planner. #WWII partisan fighter, survived Ravensbruck concentration camp, part of rebuilding #Yugoslavia b. #OTD 15 Jul 1906 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_L...

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

Breakfast-time excitement: crows with ACTUAL CARRION on our lawn. A family group (1ad, 2juv) picking over the last scraps of anything edible on a large, fresh spine. @levparikian.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social Any idea whose spine? About 30cm long with what look like 3 sets of ribs.

Gwen Alston (née Hannah Gwendolen Shone) #aerodynamicist & #educationalist. #WWII worked on spinning tunnels & aircraft flight-testing & later in flight education & as HM Inspector. Her test pilot Winkle Brown called her "a truly remarkable lady boffin" d 14 Jul 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Al...

Adele Racheli #Italian #engineer 1 of 1st women @polimi #Milan 1920 graduated in industrial mechanical engineering. 1925 founded patent protection office to protect intellectual property. Had 5 children always earned more than husband b. #OTD 14 Jul 1897 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_R...

Hello it’s me, your semi-regular hustling for archive work post. Do you need something copied from the archives or perhaps some research completing, but can’t get there yourself? Pay me to go instead. I’m great!

Maude Dickinson "High Priestess of Hygiene". Inventor of “vegetable radium” used 4 cleaning water pipes, curing eczema, strengthening concrete & improving loaves of yeastless bread, sent 1915 to PoWs in Germany “so very fresh...able to enjoy it even after 3 weeks" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_D...

OMG. Not the healthiest option but.... @gavia.bsky.social

Keep the issue in your local conversations.

🧵1/2 The Battlefield area of south Glasgow put on an area-wide 'stoop sale' at the weekend. It was brilliant, lots of people shifting surplus stuff. I walked the back streets, visited a shop I had passed for 12 yrs on the bus & never been in. Got this interesting book (AKA project). Details in ALT.

Greta Woxén nee Westberg #Sweden's 1st female civil engineer, graduated @kthuniversity.bsky.social 1928, called "Electric Girl". Worked for Elektricitetverksföreningen electricity company, then became teacher after career break to raise her family b. #OTD 12 Jul 1902 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_W...

Pelagia Majewska #Polish aeroplane & glider pilot-instructor, won national & world glider records. d. 1988 in aircraft accident, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale created medal in her memory given annually to outstanding female glider pilot d #OTD 12 Jul 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagia...

I love him in Reilly Ace of Spies, which is based on a true but staggering story. It starts quite humorous but gets darker and darker until at the end I am close to tears.

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Hilary Kahn pioneering software #engineer who laid basis for computer-aided design (CAD) & information modelling working @ Uni of Manchester. Non-traditional background & specialised skills enabled her to enter early academic computer science. b #OTD 11 July 1943 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_...

Jeanne Guiot French engineer #WWI metallurgist 4 navy & heavy industry. Feminist, promoted women's access 2 scientific & civic opportunities. 1922 1st woman member Société des ingénieurs civils d'France. 1 of 72 #WomenInSTEM 2B added 2 Eiffel Tower d #OTD 11 Jul 1963 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_...

Margot Taulé 1st woman engineer architect in #DominicanRepublic. 1948 Engineering & Architecture grad @ Uni de Santo Domingo. Structural engineer 4 Dominican National Congress building. 1966 founding staff member Uni Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena d #OTD 11 Jul 2008 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_...

A part of me is gonna miss the state fair. I’d never been embarrassed for an architrave before.

I was born and raised in England. The last time England won the World Cup was 60 years ago. Most English people want to win it again so bad they can taste it. But I just found out the captain of the England soccer team is a Trumper. Go Norway! (Sorry Dad 🙁)

Electrical engineer Kitty O'Brien Joyner: 1st female engineer hired by NACA (precursor to NASA) in 1939. During her 3-decade+ career, her pioneering math & structural calculations directly advanced American aerospace technology through #WWII & the Cold War. She was born #OTD in 1916. #WomenInSTEM

CANADA...DO NOT BUY American Fruits or veggies!! This is a nasty illness! www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

Not schadenfreude exactly but the timing of this - just as Glasgow gets to reopen Union Street after that fire back in March...

Count Beerface

Just 5 days left to the paperback release of Heroines of the Tudor World in the UK #tudorsky Mybook.to/TudorHeroines

Vote Binface, get bins!

I saw this and had to share.

Vintage Sewing Rocker from the 1930s. I want one! It would house my pens, books, phone ( yes I know), reading glasses .. It would be a bestseller these days! Genius

To the men (yes, in this case it is always men) coming to my page to educate me on my own dissertation topic, claiming they know what's what: Now tell me again that screws were always cut. Please stop projecting modern-day assumptions onto the past. #HistSTM #EarlyModern 🗃️

Miserable fun-hating cemetery administrators no longer allow this kind of thing, but otherwise we should all aspire to gravestones of such exuberance.

Paulette Libermann French mathematician of differential geometry. Libermann foliation named 4 her. Persecuted by Vichy anti-Jewish laws, 1942 hid 2 yrs. 1944 got agrégation. 1945-7 @ Oxford Uni. 1947-51 research, 1953 PhD. 1958 Prof @ Uni of Rennes d #OTD 10 Jul 2007 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulett...

Awww, diddums.🎻

We were so sorry to hear about the passing of Wally Funk on Wednesday. She was the youngest of the Mercury 13, and over her long life she brought the gift of flight to some 3000 students before finally seeing space in 2021 at the age of 82. She was loved the world over. tinyurl.com/2dk7865v