Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering
Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...
Angélique du Coudray. From Aloïs Delacoux, Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines (Unknown artist. Paris: Trinquart, 1834) #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
Angélique du Coudray midwife. 1739 obstetrics diploma, certified midwife 4 Paris. Invented life-size training mannequin. 1759 published textbook. W' pension from king gave free childbirth lessons for 25 yrs. Trained 1000s women & surgeons, > reducing infant mortality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%...
Amalia Ercoli Finzi #WomenInSTEM
Amalia Ercoli Finzi Italian engineer, Principal Investigator SD2 drill on Philae spacecraft. 1962 1st Italian woman aeronautical engineering grad, @ Polytechnic Uni of Milan Taught there >50 yrs, professor 1994. Scientific advisor to NASA ASI & ESA b #OTD 20 Apr 1937 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_...
Good question. She hasn't been deeply researched unfortunately. Her obituary stated with divorce "came also an end to her direct personal involvement with aviation and the affairs of Blackburn Aircraft" but not clear on the financial impact
Jessy Blackburn similing broadly, wearing a patterned 1920s/30s frock trimmed with white lace in B&W headshot photo #WomenInSTEM
Jessy Blackburn aviation pioneer 1 of 1st women to fly in British monoplane. Founded Blackburn Aircraft w' husband using her inheritance. Key in sales & marketing, hosted RAF officials politicians media & aviators in Leeds home. Flew in 1922/28 King's Cup Air Races b. #OTD 20 Apr 1894 bit.ly/3fEqXYq
Honor Salmon in B&W headshot in ATA uniform #WomenPilots
Honor Salmon (née Pitman of shorthand family). Learned to fly @ 14 1936 joined First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. #WWII 1941 First Officer pilot in UK Air Transport Auxiliary. Crashed 1943, 1 of 15 women pilots who lost their lives whilst flying for #ATA d. #OTD 19 Apr 1943 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_S...
Rose Dieng-Kuntz smiling happily in colour headshot photo #BlackHistory #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Rose Dieng-Kuntz Senegalese French computer scientist in artificial intelligence. 1st African woman student @ École polytechnique. PhD in specification of parallelism, 1992 2nd woman to lead research project @ INRIA. Worked on knowledge sharing on early semantic web en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Di...
Natalie Demassieux around 1910 in a lab. #WomenInSTEM #EiffelTower
Nathalie Demassieux (1884–1961) Russian born French chemist & academic, specialised in mineral chemistry. 1923 PhD in physical sciences @ University of Paris. 1930 3rd woman to become lecturer in a French university (Caen) (after Irène Joliot-Curie & Pauline Ramart). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathali...
NEW BOOK now out!!
VERY excited to publish my most substantial book to date, about women's motoring clubs.
If you are connected to a club that wants a speaker (no fee, just expenses) or a magazine for a review, DM me.
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Rose Dieng-Kuntz smiling happily in colour headshot photo #BlackHistory #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Rose Dieng-Kuntz Senegalese French computer scientist in artificial intelligence. 1st African woman student @ École polytechnique. PhD in specification of parallelism, 1992 2nd woman to lead research project @ INRIA. Worked on knowledge sharing on early semantic web en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Di...
Mary Earle in B&W photo seated at desk #WomenInSTEM
Mary Earle Scottish-born New Zealand food technologist. 1st female faculty member of university engineering dept in NZ when joined @ Massey University food tech dept in 1965. 1992 full professor w personal chair 1st in uni's technology faculty. d. #OTD 18 Apr 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ea...
Kwon Ki-ok in flying outfit in B&W blurry headshot #WomenPilots
Kwon Ki-ok 1925 1st #Korean & 1 of 1st woman pilots in China where exiled in 1918 during Japanese occupation of Korea. Lieutenant colonel in Republic of China Air Force, returned to Korean post independence, founder of Republic of Korea Air Force. d. #OTD 19 Apr 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon_Ki...
Theodora Llewelyn Davies in B&W headshot #WomenInLaw #WomenInSTEM
Theodora Llewelyn Davies #barrister & penal reform campaigner. 1920 1st woman to apply for admission to Inner Temple. 1926 Honorary Legal adviser to @wes1919.bsky.social "On more than 1 occasion has given us the benefit of her advice, kindly & practical help". b. #OTD 18 Apr 1898 bit.ly/2V3Y7oN
Black-and-white portrait of Harriet Brooks shown from the shoulders up. She faces slightly to the right with a neutral expression. Her hair is light-colored, loosely styled and swept back from her forehead. She wears a high-collared dark dress with a fitted neck and smooth fabric. The background is plain and light, with no visible objects or decorations.
Harriet Brooks was one of Canada's first female nuclear physicists.
Sir Ernest Rutherford said she was an equal of Marie Curie.
She co-discovered radon and helped lay the foundations of nuclear science.
Then she left her career when she was 29.
This is her story.
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Angélique du Coudray. From Aloïs Delacoux, Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines (Unknown artist. Paris: Trinquart, 1834)
Angélique du Coudray midwife. 1739 obstetrics diploma, certified midwife 4 Paris. Invented life-size training mannequin. 1759 published textbook. Gave free childbirth lessons for 25 yrs. Trained 1000s women & surgeons, > reducing infant mortality. d. #OTD 17 Apr 1794 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%...
UK use is reclaiming what might be intended as an insult and reframing it /owning it with pride. It’s a historical definition which is still used here to distinguish different approaches within suffrage movement of e C20th. Much the same as how term queer has been been reframed from insult to owned.
Definitely not. In UK suffragette is used with pride for those who took militant action and were often imprisoned and worse for their actions. Suffragists were non militant. Huge difference
Veronica Innes in ATA uniform, trousers, flying helmet, fur lined gloves and boots
Veronica Innes (later Volkersz) beauty queen turned #pilot. Flew for Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA in #WWII. Was 1st woman to fly operational jet fighter when she ferried a Meteor from the Gloster factory to RAF Moreton Valence in 1945 b #OTD 17 April 1917 bit.ly/30n9L4I
Book now for my talk about women's motoring clubs, 9th May in the former Royal Scottish Automobile Club HQ, Blythswood Hotel.
I will have my books on sale, so bring yer cash!
glasgowblythswoodfestival.co.uk/event/clubba...
Natalie Demassieux around 1910 in a lab. #WomenInSTEM #EiffelTower
Nathalie Demassieux (1884–1961) Russian born French chemist & academic, specialised in mineral chemistry. 1923 PhD in physical sciences @ University of Paris. 1930 3rd woman to become lecturer in a French university (Caen) (after Irène Joliot-Curie & Pauline Ramart). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathali...
Laura Annie Wilson in B&W head & shoulders photo wearing her MBE #WomenInSTEM
Laura Annie Willson engineer & suffragette imprisoned twice for political activities. Started factory work age 10, trade unionist, President & founding member of Women's Eng Soc. Built 500+ houses 1st female member of Federation of House Builders. d. #OTD 17 Apr 1942 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_A...
Will see what comes up - not looked at list through that lens. 🤓
Its a dangerously interesting place - has been really useful! I think its by the team who put the official list together. I must get on with updating my thread of the 72 pages too, irl got in the way.
Blog & podcast sound brilliant. Will do a run through of my lists this weekend for engineers by marriage. Are you also interested in engineers by descent i.e. daughters?
My latest wiki project has been completing English wiki page for all 72 Eiffel Women. Took a while! Now need to make sure that exisiting pages are of a decent quality, then add/link all the other women they connect with & ensure their places of education get pages in English too. Growing like Topsy!
A new page for starter Cornélie Lebon de Brambilla 1767–1812) French engineer. Husband Philippe Lebon (1767–1804) invented form of gas lighting during French Revolutionary period. Following his early death, she continued work on thermolamp designed for urban lighting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3...
Harriet Quimby in purple flying suit in front of early plane - cropped from a cigarette card
Harriet Quimby aviator, journalist theatre critic, movie screenwriter. 1911 1st woman to get US pilot's license. 1st woman to fly across English Channel #OTD 16 Apr 1912. Wore distinctive purple flying suit. Wrote screen plays for silent films, died later in aircrash en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...
Anne Chamney in B&W headshot photo #WomenInSTEM
Anne Chamney mechanical engineer, medical equipment specialist. Invented lifesaving cheaper, lighter & easier to transport oxygen tent. Studied @ Royal Aeronutical Soc, 1953 apprentice @ De Havilland Aircraft Co. Senior technician @uclh.bsky.social b #OTD 16 Apr 1931 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ch...
I think she would!
Dr Alice Christine Stickland in B&W headshot #WomenInSTEM
Dr Alice Christine Stickland #radio #radar & #astrophysics #engineer. 1927 maths degree @ KingsCollege London led 2 work @ Radio Research Station. 1943 PhD on Magnetic Field of Electron Magnetic Waves. Prolific author. Involved with Girl Guiding. d. #OTD 16 Apr 1987 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_C...