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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 5h

Fay Gillis Wells US aviator. 1929 1 of 1st women pilots to bail out of plane to save life, @theninetyninesinc.bsky.social founder. 1930s journalist in USSR & 1st US woman to fly Soviet civil airplane. Covered wars, White House correspondent 1963-77 b #OTD 15 Oct 1908 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Gil...

Fay Gillis Wells in later life, sat smiling in front of a blown up picture of herself in a flying helmet and goggles when young. B&W image

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 15h

Victoria Drummond 1st UK woman #MarineEngineer. Colleague wrote "Most courageous woman I ever saw...without fear or nerves, is very good at her job & has an uncanny power over engines for which I once thanked God" Early @wes1919.bsky.social member b. #OTD 14 Oct 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Victoria Drummond in apprenticeship uniform c. 1920

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

An image for #ALD25. This is Evelyn Strutt, Lady Rayleigh (www.npg.org.uk/collections/...).

She's not often numbered among "women in science", but she had a crucial role in the work attributed to her husband, because he didn't know German and she did.

Old photograph showing a woman in late Victorian costume holding a book.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Ilse Knott-ter Meer 1 of 1st #German women engineering graduates Tech Uni of Munich. Worked as sanitary engineer. 1930 org'd 1st formal meeting of German women engineers @ World Power Conference #Berlin. @wes1919.bsky.social memb 2 buildings & street named for her. b. #OTD 14 Oct 1899 bit.ly/3bYKk9k

Ilse Knott-ter Meer in B&W head and shoulders photo from 1930 #WomenInSTEM

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Lotten von Plomgren Swedish civil defence activist. 1884 1 of founders of Svenska kvinnoföreningen för fosterlandets försvar (Swedish Women's Assoc for Defence of Fatherland) president 1884-1914. Supported military defence, raised money 4 military. b #OTD 13 Oct 1831 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotten_...

Lotten von Plomgren later C19th B&W photograph printed inside an drawn oval frame with her name in a ribbon banner. plaited hair coiled on top of head.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Virginia Hogan US chemist, specialist in pyrotechnics, 1949 BSc chemistry @ St Johns Uni, MSc chemistry @ Fordham Uni. 1963 was "the only woman research chemist at Picatinny Arsenal" large US Army installation in New Jersey where she worked 47 yrs. d #OTD 13 Oct 2004 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini...

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Maria Artini 1894-1951 #Italian engineer 1918 1st woman electrical engineering uni graduate in Italy 2nd woman graduate @ Polytec Uni of Milan. Worked 4 Edison energy @ #Milan helped design & construct country's 1st high-voltage (130 kV) power line in Brugherio-Parma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_A...

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Worn #onthisday in 1912 by the Olympia Skating Club demonstration team at London's "palatial" Holland Park Rink. "All over the country the skating fever appears to have caught on and it seems to be a healthy form of amusement," the Leicester Chronicle reported in November 1911. #OTD @gettyimages.com

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Katharine Burr Blodgett US physicist chemist. 1926 1st woman #physics PhD @ Cambridge. Invented nonreflective "invisible" glass for lenses used filming Gone with the Wind 1939. Later used for submarine periscopes & plane spy cameras in #WWII. d. #OTD 12 Oct 1979 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathari...

Katharine Burr Blodgett using a machine to make lenses. B&W photo #WomenInSTEM

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect, will add tomorrow.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Stella “Jaye” "Pete" Edwards, last of UK women #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary pilots. Early 1943 saw advert for women pilots to join #ATA, flew 20 types of aircraft, with very little training & always solo, most enjoyed flying Hawker Hurricanes. b. #OTD 12 Oct 1918 bit.ly/3e1pKM7

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

Always happy to help with that. Here you go - www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136485... Just the basics in there - more info can get added as found. And she will appear in Women in Red's Red Lists for engineering and maths.

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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Dr Gwendoline Marjorie Roper (1901-72)
Truly, there is always more to know. Yesterday I bought this newspaper at a boot fair for a quid, not even realising it had half a page about women in aviation until I was reading it on train home. 1/3

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Front page of The Times Survey of British Aviation Sept 1956

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d

How fascinating! A new name to me too. Will start a Wikidata entry for her…

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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 3d

For the whole story of Lalitha's life, see @shlead.bsky.social's excellent book: shanthamohan.com/roots-and-wi...

Roots and Wings-Second Edition

I am thrilled to announce the release of the second edition of my book, “Roots and Wings: Inspiring Stories of Indian Women in Engineering” on Amazon. The audience for this edition is m…

shanthamohan.com

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d

Miriam Violet Griffith, UK electrical engineer, technical author, early expert on ground source heat pumps. Educated @ Cheltenham Ladies College. Physics degree Bedford College Elected Fellow @ Institute of Physics @physicsnews.bsky.social b4 1949 b. #OTD 11 Oct 1911 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_...

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d

Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha #India’s 1st Woman #ElectricalEngineer. Widowed young, her family supported her career in power transmission equipment, incl protective gear, substation & generator design incl Bhakra Nangal Dam @wes1919.bsky.social member d. #OTD 12 Oct 1979 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyalas...

Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha as a v young woman in slightly ripped B&W photo

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d

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 of Society Women Engineers & Soroptimists. d. #OTD 11 Oct 1981 bit.ly/31IRG1H

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d

Hattie T. Scott Peterson. In 1946 1st African-American woman to earn bachelor's degree in civil engineering. 1947 Survey & cartographic #engineer for US Geological Survey. 1954 1st woman engineer to join local US Army Corps of Engineers. #WomenInSTEM b. #OTD 11 Oct 1913 bit.ly/3hKbQLJ

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4d

Guillermina Uribe Bone 1948 1st woman to earn degree in civil engineering @ Nat Uni of #Colombia #Bogota. 1949 joined Nat Buildings @ Ministry of Works, worked on Cali Post Office & Santa Marta Olympic Stadium. 2024 building @ Uni named in honour. d. #OTD 11 Oct 2018 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiller...

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4d

Raye Montague US naval engineer created 1st computer-generated draft of US naval ship. 1956 grad Arkansas Ag Mech & Normal College Joined Navy as clerk, sat next 2 UNIVAC I computer, stepped in to run machine, rose to be program director for NAVSEA d #OTD 10 Oct 2018 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye_Mo...

Raye Montague in colour photo taken in 2017

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4d

Marion Rice Hart 1st woman chemical engineering grad @ MIT Worked as physicist @ GEC, then Arizona copper mine, radio operator on B-17, ran locomotive on Southern Pacific, took up art, then sailed round world. #WWII joined Army Signal Corps. b. #OTD 10 Oct 1891 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_...

Marion Rice Hart at wheel of a boat, fag hanging out of mouth in B&W photo

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4d

Madeleine Charnaux French war correspondent, sculptor, aviator. Flying licence 1934 won records & long distance prizes 17k km air travel. Awarded Legion of Honour #WWII 1939 Vichy France ran school training women aircraft mechanics &radio operators d #OTD 10 Oct 1943 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelei...

Madeleine Charnaux in B&W head & shoulders photo

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4d

Evelyn Roxburgh is thought to be 1st woman to qualify as an #electrical #engineer in #Scotland. Worked for Metropolitan Vickers & HM Factory Inspectorate, retrained as skilled #radiographer & stalwart of @womensinstitute.bsky.social in retirement. b. #OTD 10 Oct 1896 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_...

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