She was one of the first women to attend engineering lectures at Manchester University, after the engineering faculty decided to open its classes to women mid-way through her physics degree. She was the first woman to be admitted to the technical staff of British Westinghouse, the first woman member of the Society of Technical Engineers and the first Student, Graduate and Associate Member of the IEE (now the IET).
British draughtswoman who designed and drew power transformers.
Finding her way barred to more challenging roles in industry she took a commission as an engineer in the Women’s Royal Army Corps in 1953.
In 1937 she joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough where she remained for the whole of a very eminent career.
Director of her family’s Wolf Safety Lamp Company, which made safety lamps for mining and quarrying
American mechanical engineer working from about 1917 to some time in the 1950s.
English entrepreneur, socialite and forger
Scotland’s first female engineering graduate.
Machine tools expert and Women’s Engineering Society President.
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.