Kathleen Cook
Mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and Women’s Engineering Society President.
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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.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Judy Butland
Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.