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 was a self-taught builder-developer, and an excellent self publicist as well as an Anglican vicar’s wife.
Scotswoman Winnie Drinkwater was a very well-known pilot and engineer in the 1930s.
Vera Huckel started work at the NACA in 1939.At the time, very few women worked as computers. By 1945 she was a section head in charge of up to 17 women, having worked as mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician.
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
British metallurgist
Radio, radar and astrophysics engineer.