Kate Gleason
The USA’s first woman engineer, “Concrete Kate” Gleason, mechanical engineer and house builder.
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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.
Winnie Drinkwater
Scotswoman Winnie Drinkwater was a very well-known pilot and engineer in the 1930s.
Vera Huckel
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 Weinling
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Elizabeth Weinling
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Eugenie Weinling
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Matilda Weinling
Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.
Enid Freda Bull
British metallurgist