Engineering Archives - Page 27 of 34

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.

Kate Gleason

The USA’s first woman engineer, “Concrete Kate” Gleason, mechanical engineer and house builder.

Adelaide Anderson

Although not an engineer by training and not the very first of the Lady Factory Inspectors, Dame Adelaide Anderson became one of the best known and had close connections with the Women’s Engineering Society at its outset in the final years of her own career.

Annabel Dott

Annabel Dott was a self-taught builder-developer, and an excellent self publicist as well as an Anglican vicar’s wife.