Engineering Archives - Page 10 of 15

Matilda Weinling

Ann, Matilda, Elizabeth and Eugenie Weinling were the first women at the Royal Balloon Factory.

Alice Stickland

Radio, radar and astrophysics engineer.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.

Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu

Elisa Leonida was one of the first formally-recognised female engineers in Europe.

Beryl Platt

Helped establish the Women Into Science and Engineering Year in 1984.

Kate Gleason

The USA’s first woman engineer, “Concrete Kate” Gleason, mechanical engineer and house builder.

Although not an engineer by training and not the very first of the Lady Factory Inspectors, Dame Adelaide Anderson became one of the best known and had close connections with the Women’s Engineering Society at its outset in the final years of her own career.