Laura Willson
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
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Muriel Glauert
British mathematician and aerodynamicist
Dr Winifred Hackett
Having been involved with the Women’s Engineering Society since 1929, in 1946 she became President.
Kathleen Cook
Mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and Women’s Engineering Society President.
Lou Alta Melton
One of the USA’s first female engineers.
Mabel Lucy Matthews
British electrical and production engineer
Madeleine Nobbs
British building services engineer
Margaret Law
Margaret Law was considered by her contemporaries to be a pioneer in the, then new, field of fire engineering.
Margaret Partridge
Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.
Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.