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Francisca Fernández-Hall #Guatemalan engineer. 1st woman in Central America to earn engineering degree (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala) & attend Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil @ime1792 1st female ambassador for #Guatemala b #OTD 12 Apr 1916 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca_Fern%C3%A1ndez-Hall
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Maxine "Blossom" Miles #aviator #engineer #socialite & #businesswoman. From family of #actors she got into #aviation in 1920s married flight instructor FG Miles & founded Miles Aircraft Ltd worked as company draughtswoman @womensengsoc member d #OTD 6 Apr 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Blossom_Miles

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Mrs Pender Chalmers #actress #aviator #engineer “very keen on flying & spent 3 weeks’ holiday in making 3000 mile trip to #Baghdad #Babylon & #Ur." Known for flying in light aircraft & being "air minded" before it was fashionable b #OTD 13 Mar 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Pender_Chalmers #WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Mrs Ying Hsi Yuan #Chinese #CivilEngineer trained #Peiping in 1930s worked in bridge design in #China before taking postgrad degree @livunieng in 1940s. Attended @Womensengsoc 1944 conference & joined organisation. Later worked in #architecture in #HongKong #IWD2023
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Margaret Weston Director of @sciencemuseum in 1970s/80s, An #electricalengineer, 1st woman appointed Keeper at museum. Later acquired #Concorde for collection & revolutionised museum education. Retirement present from staff was motorbike b. #OTD 7 Mar 1926 bit.ly/3pBX2SO
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Joan Curran #Welsh #physicist #engineer with "scientific equivalent of gardening green fingers". Studied @newnhamcollege #WWII invented Chaff radar countermeasure & worked on #ManhattanProject. Campaigner for disability rights #DisHist b. #OTD 26 Feb 1916 bit.ly/3bpzeM7

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Marie Marvingt Record-breaking #French #balloonist #aviator. #WWI 1st woman (volunteer) combat pilot 1st trained certified flight nurse in world. Worked to establish intern'l air ambulance services. 1st woman to climb many peaks in #Alps b #OTD 20 Feb 1875 bit.ly/3oXHE2i

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Isabel Hardwich #ElectricalEngineer & #Photometry expert at Metropolitan Vickers. Specialised in #physics @Newnham_College & campaigned to educate recruit & support young women into #engineering @womensengsoc President & Fellow of @swetalk d. #OTD 19 Feb 1987 bit.ly/2MLlDGl
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#OTD 16 Feb 1909 #suffragette Muriel Matters took to the air in a #dirigible over #London to leaflet state opening of Parliament with Votes for Women leaflets. Blow off course but made headlines around 🌍 Listen to her story here: bit.ly/3pO4qe0  bit.ly/39NOP8C




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M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)” 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton @womensengsoc member b #OTD 8 Feb 1894
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Geneviève Meurgues French #conservator #chemicalengineer, natural history specimen conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of Marseille Roman boat & estab'of grande galerie de l'évolution @Le_Museum Muséum national d'histoire naturelle b 4 Feb 1931 bit.ly/3x28udt
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Diane Lemaire #Australian #aeronautical #engineer. 1944 1st woman engineering graduate @unimelb. Technical Officer @ Aeronautical Research Laboratories. Post #WWII worked @ UK National Physical Laboratory, did MSc @Cornell returned to ARL b #OTD 2 Feb 1923 bit.ly/2Ionwq9

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Mrs Ying Hsi Yuan #Chinese #CivilEngineer trained #Peiping 1930s, worked in bridge design in #China before UK postgrad degree @livuni engineering in 1940s. Attended @womensengsoc 1944 conference & joined organisation. Later worked in #architecture in #HongKong #LunarNewYear
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Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4


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Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4


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Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4


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Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4


#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Nora Stanton Barney GB-born US #CivilEngineer #architect #suffragist. 1 of 1st women #engineering graduates in US. Husband issued ultimatum of be wife or engineer, she chose latter. Granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US #suffragist d #OTD 18 Jan 1971 bit.ly/2OEImS4


#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Anne Greaves ran her own quarry & invented an artificial stone called “Cast Stone”. Originally a #confectioner, she was a #quarry manager by 1925 when she became 1st woman member of Institute of Quarry Managers. Born January 1889 in #Goole #Yorkshire bit.ly/38uFh1H


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Margaret Weston Director of @sciencemuseum in 1970s/80s An #electricalengineer, 1st woman appointed Keeper at museum. Later acquired #Concorde for collection & revolutionised museum education. Retirement present from staff was motorbike d. #OTD 12 Jan 2021 bit.ly/3pBX2SO


#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Minnie Elizabeth (Betty) Barclay Lindsay, 2nd woman engineering graduate (mech eng) @EdinburghUni Worked as #civilengineer in #Albania on Anti-Malarial Mission 1926-39 later technical translator in Spanish & Albanian for Air Ministry d. #OTD 11 Jan 1953 bit.ly/3gCNy8u


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M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)” 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton @womensengsoc member b. #OTD 9 Jan 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
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Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on their #BSA #motorcycle which they promoted with #dog Poncho. 1928 they published Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" They competed in trials events & Nancy won gold medal @ #Brooklands

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Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on their #BSA #motorcycle which they promoted with #dog Poncho. 1928 they published Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" They competed in trials events & Nancy won gold medal @ #Brooklands

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Geneviève Meurgues #French #conservator #chemicalengineer natural history specimen #conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of #Marseille #Roman boat & estab'of grande galerie de l'évolution @ Muséum national d'histoire naturelle d 21 Dec 2021 bit.ly/3x28udt
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Dorothy Spicer British #aviatrix 1st woman to gain advanced qualification in #aeronauticalengineering. Amy Johnson teased her @womensengsoc event "amidst much laughter...to admit or deny...that she held every licence that it was possible to hold" died Dec 1946 bit.ly/2FFQb40 #WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Constance Tipper #metallurgist #crystallographer specialised in metal strength effect on #Engineering problems. #WWII solved brittle fracture in #LibertyShips. Reader #mechanicalengineering & 1st female full-time faculty #cambridgeuniversity d #OTD 14 Dec 1995 bit.ly/2YHWdMA #WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Francisca Fernández-Hall #Guatemalan engineer. 1st woman in C America to earn engineering degree (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala) & attend Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil. First female ambassador for Guatemala d. #OTD 27 Nov 2001 bit.ly/3x4fIzm

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