Mona Anderson
One of New Zealand’s most popular and successful non-fiction authors of the 1960s and 1970s.
One of New Zealand’s most popular and successful non-fiction authors of the 1960s and 1970s.
New Zealand farmer, midwife, nurse and businesswoman
Betty Julia Sullivan was a female pioneer in the field of chemical engineering, where she won several prestigious awards against strict competition.
Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women’s rights activist and suffragist.
Hannah Wilkinson Slater was an early American pioneer and inventor.
Helen Major was an amateur historian and an active volunteer at the Mills Archive.
Sarah Tabitha Babbitt is believed to have invented the first circular saw for use in a sawmill between 1810 and 1813.
The last Melin Bompren miller
Amy Smith is an inventor, teacher and founder of MIT D-Lab and Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Sybilla Righton Masters was the first person living in the American colonies to be awarded an English patent – two in fact, and possibly the first female machinery inventor in America.