Mona Hirst
Engineer who started out as a mathematician.
Engineer who started out as a mathematician.
British electrical power engineer and Women’s Engineering Society president.
Whenever you hear of cities flooding or read about the potential for climate change and sealevel rise to flood our major cities, you can thank Mary Kendrick for her life’s work on the Thames and Mersey river systems.
Defence electronics engineer
Set up and commanded the women’s Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII
During the First World War she replaced her brother as a director on the board of their father’s Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company and oversaw the recruitment and training of women war workers
Acoustic and electronics engineer and technical educator.
Women’s Engineering Society president and pioneering computer engineer.
British metallurgist and corrosion specialist
She was an amateur engineer in her own time and in 1940 she was one of the first women trainees on the courses run by the Women’s Engineering Society at the Beaufoy Institute in London to prepare women for engineering war work.