Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
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Henrietta Vansittart
Henrietta Lowe Vansittart is often considered to be the first British woman to work as a ‘proper’ engineer or naval architect.
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.
Dr Helen Grimshaw
In 1937 she joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough where she remained for the whole of a very eminent career.
Anne Greaves
Yorkshirewoman who ran her own quarry and invented an artificial stone.
Amanda Melvina Lougee
Suffragist and inventor who took over management of Clifton Manufacturing Company when her brother died
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
Pauline Agassiz Shaw
In 1881, when Pauline Agassiz Shaw founded the North Bennet Street School to train primarily European Jewish and Italian immigrants in skilled trades, Boston’s North End was home to thousands of recent immigrants who crowded into the neighborhood’s tenement houses in search of a better life.
Kate J Boeckh
National Women’s Party suffragist, aviator, inventor
Dr Ellen Ochoa
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became Johnson Space Center’s 11th center director in 2013 until her retirement in 2018 after 30 years at NASA.