Helen Major
Helen Major was an amateur historian and an active volunteer at the Mills Archive.
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Tabitha Babbitt
Sarah Tabitha Babbitt is believed to have invented the first circular saw for use in a sawmill between 1810 and 1813.
Hettie Jones
The last Melin Bompren miller
Amy B Smith
Amy Smith is an inventor, teacher and founder of MIT D-Lab and Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Sybilla Righton Masters
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.
Eva Ekeblad
Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish salon hostess, scientist and agronomist.
Emilie Montgomery Gardner
E M Gardner was the driving force behind the inclusion of watermills in the remit of the Windmill Section of the SPAB, which became the Wind and Watermill Section in 1946.
Eve Logan
In 1977, Evelyn took up an administration post with the Family Practitioner Committee for Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority, and over the next few years quickly rose through the ranks to become the Deputy Registrar.
Elizabeth Mackay
New Zealander Elizabeth Mackay was a full partner in farming activities, owning 125 acres in her own right.
Robyn Tredwell
In 1995, Robyn Tredwell won the ABC Australian Rural Woman of the Year award. She went on to become Director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and Project Director of Birdwood Downs station.