Engineering Archives - Page 26 of 33

Anne Gillespie Shaw

In 1930 Shaw became a personnel officer for Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company in Manchester, and was later (1933) chief supervisor of women workers.

Anne Greaves

Yorkshirewoman who ran her own quarry and invented an artificial stone.

Christiana Rose

Ran her family business in ship chandlery and brass founding

Cleone de Hevengham Benest

British motorist, engineer and metallurgist

Constance Fligg Elam Tipper

Eminent metallurgist and a very rare example of an industry-standard test named after a woman.

Anne Burns

Burns was an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot, who became the world expert in ‘Clear Air Turbulence’ and its effects on aircraft safety.

Blanche Thornycroft was one of the earliest women to have a significant role in engineering in Britain, and the first woman to be elected to an Associate Membership of the Institution of Naval Architects.

Carlotta Bollée

After her automobile designer died in 1913, she took over the family business

Caroline Maude Davis

Caroline Maude Davis worked in her father’s Sussex foundry in the early 20th century

Beryl Platt

Helped establish the Women Into Science and Engineering Year in 1984.