Engineering Archives - Page 23 of 34

British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.

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’.

Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.

Chemical engineer Isabel Hadfield spent most of her career in research at the NPL.

Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.

Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.

Henrietta Lowe Vansittart is often considered to be the first British woman to work as a ‘proper’ engineer or naval architect.

The UK’s first female railway engineer

In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.

American mechanical engineer working from about 1917 to some time in the 1950s.