Engineering Archives - Page 20 of 34

Verena Holmes

Practical mechanical engineer, patent holder and entrepreneur.

Marion McQuillan

Metallurgist who specialised in the engineering uses for titanium and its alloys.

1959 she gained her chartered engineer status with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET), and moved to planning electrification schemes. In 1961 she and her husband set up their own consultancy, CivLec Industrial Advisory Services.

Marjorie Bell

Women’s Engineering Society President, electrical engineer and factory inspector.

Mary Isolen Fergusson

Scotland’s first woman to become a career civil engineer.

Evelyn Roxburgh

Scotswoman Evelyn Roxburgh is thought to have been the first woman to qualify as an electrical engineer in Scotland.

Mona Hirst

Engineer who started out as a mathematician.

May Maple

British electrical power engineer and Women’s Engineering Society president.

Mary Kendrick

Whenever you hear of cities flooding or read about the potential for climate change and sealevel rise to flood our major cities, you can thank Mary Kendrick for her life’s work on the Thames and Mersey river systems.