Alice Stickland
Radio, radar and astrophysics engineer.
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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.
Adelaide Anderson
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.
Emily Warren Roebling
Completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her engineer husband was incapacitated
Dr Daphne Jackson
Nuclear engineer and founder of the UK’s returner fellowships programme.
Jeanie Dicks
Jeanie Dicks was responsible for the first permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral in 1934.
Florence Violet McKenzie
Australia’s first female electrical engineer, founder of a telegraphy school and initiator of the WRANS.